Gregor Binder on Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 07:19:44PM +0200: Have to reply to myself, sorry ...
If you haven't already, check if vmstat shows processes waiting for I/O, and check iostat for busy disks. If you find you're asking too much from these devices, Raid-0 might help. And maybe you would find out you can remove one CPU and about 3GB of RAM :)
if you find the disk(s) to be too busy, you may also want to try playing with sync(), which might unload your disk also (if you're waiting for disks, it's probably not because of unsufficient throughput). You might have to use small sampling intervals with the monitoring tools the way you're testing it ... Greetings, -- ____ ____ / _/| - > Gregor Binder <gb@(rootnexus.net|sysfive.com)> | / || _\ \ \__ Id: 0xE2F31C4B Fp: 8B8A 5CE3 B79B FBF1 5518 8871 0EFB AFA3 E2F3 1C4B