From: Shane Hickey (shane@howsyournetwork.com)
Date: Thu Jan 30 2003 - 12:08:40 EST
Howdy all,
I apologize if this has been covered. I did some searching and found
similar questions, but not answers, and I'm in a bit of a bind. Anyway,
I have an e250 with a gig of RAM and two 296Mhz processors. I can give
more specifics if needed (I don't have it in front of me). I'm trying
to migrate the services of another e250 onto this box (mainly sendmail,
dns, pop3). The difference is that I've setup RAID5 on the new box
using the instructions I found at
http://www.pennasoft.com/articles/SolarisRAID.shtml.
Sadly, I didn't document the process as well as I should have and I'm
not very familiar with raid on solaris. Anyway, I do recall that I
bumped the strip size up a bit.
Anyway, what I'm seeing is tons of sleeping sendmail processes and a
fairly high load. It seems like a bunch of CPU is getting tied up in
IO? Also, I'm watching my tmpfs dwindle away to nothing.
Here are some particulars, please let me know if I can provide
information. I'm more of linux/freebsd person that a solaris person, so
I don't think I know all the diagnostic commands that I should.
df -k
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Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 16468538 4207068 12096785 26% /
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/md/dsk/d5 69585470 4677568 59341065 8% /var
swap 2033024 32 2032992 1% /var/run
swap 2033008 16 2032992 1% /tmp
iostat
---------------
tty md5 sd0 sd6 sd7
cpu
tin tout kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv kps tps serv us sy
wt id
0 74 414 37 65 497 15 55 0 0 9 760 87 28 11 12
57 20
top
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load averages: 0.65, 0.55, 0.46
10:07:27
2606 processes:2603 sleeping, 2 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 27.3% idle, 6.3% user, 13.3% kernel, 53.0% iowait, 0.0%
swap
Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Shane
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