Re: Performance on USparc 10 , Linux 2.2.17, eprints software

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:53:40PM +0100, Silvio Macedo wrote:

[swap]
> 
> Ok. Update: during eprints perl scripts, my machine goes into this
> terrible situation:
> 
> Mem:    61424K av,   60136K used,    1288K free,   34232K shrd,    1288K buff
> Swap:  257024K av,  196352K used,   60672K free                   21192K cached
> 
> Therefore, it seems very clear that the problem is indeed lack of memory,
> due to somehow higher requirements from eprints perl/XML/DBD scripts.
> I'll have to wait for our 128MB chip to return.

Be aware, though, that the 128MB might not solve the situation fully,
as you seem to be using more swap than that. Another thing to look
into is the hard drive. Which one do you have? The original IDE drives
in the U10 were very slow and it wasn't until the later models that
Sun started to ship them with something more decent. If you happen to
have a slow one, replacing it might help, too.

Cheerio,

Thomas
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