Bill Graham on Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:47:32AM -0700: Bill,
Upgrading the system probably wouldn't solve the problem and would most likely be a waste of hardware. I am running on a E250 w/2 450MHz processors and 4Gb of RAM.
assuming this host is doing logging only, I would think you would need more disks than the E250 fits until this kind of CPU and memory resour- ces will be exhausted. Have you tried monitoring performance on the box using vmstat, iostat and sar? I can't see (judging by the figures you mention from your tes- ting) how a machine like this could be bound by CPU or RAM when it does not recv() fast enough. 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 :) Regards, -- ____ ____ / _/| - > Gregor Binder <gb@(rootnexus.net|sysfive.com)> | / || _\ \ \__ Id: 0xE2F31C4B Fp: 8B8A 5CE3 B79B FBF1 5518 8871 0EFB AFA3 E2F3 1C4B