Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Siju George wrote: > Thank you so much Bob :-) > You are really kind to explain such a lot :-D Happy to help! > It is the many Virtual Machines that are taking memory. > I am going to get a bigger machine that supports svm to ron them. I am glad that you have identified the issue. Virtual machi

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-27 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Then 'htop' can help you find processes that are consuming memory. > The default is to sort the display by percent CPU usage.  But you can > change that to display sorted by resident set size.  Press F6 and then > use the cursor keys to chang

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Siju George wrote: > srv1:~# free -m > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 3956 3538418 0 0181 > -/+ buffers/cache: 3356600 > Swap: 9538 51 9486 That looks okay. You h

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Siju George wrote: > procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- cpu ...abbreviated... > r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo in cs us sy id wa > 0 2 27608 441256520 238372 20 223 1161 1020 3580 13200 1 5 72 22 > 0 1 29076 444256

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-21 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > That sounds more like it is swapping now when before it was not.  Is > there now a process running that is consuming more memory?  What does > 'cat /proc/meminfo' say about memory usage?  (Although I have gotten > lazy and rely much upon 'htop

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-21 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > as it was instantenous earlier. > > That sounds more like it is swapping now when before it was not.  Is > there now a process running that is consuming more memory?  What does > 'cat /proc/meminfo' say about memory usage?  (Although I have gott

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Siju George put forth on 10/20/2010 7:20 AM: > Thanks for your replies Bob, Stan and Karl :-) > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> You just installed Squeeze on this system 4 days ago. > no Ok, let me rephrase. At the time I typed that, you had replaced your Linux kern

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-20 Thread Siju George
Thanks for your replies Bob, Stan and Karl :-) On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Siju George put forth on 10/19/2010 7:16 AM: > > > Define "recently". > 2-3 days back > > You just installed Squeeze on this system 4 days ago. > no >Four days isn't > sufficient to say a

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Siju George wrote: > Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When you say that it becomes slow, do you have any comparison figures > > between normal and "slow" operation? > > well, > > saving after editing crontab -e with less than 10 lines takes 5-8 > seconds where as it was instantenous earlier. That sound

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Siju George put forth on 10/19/2010 7:16 AM: > Recently Saving/Copying files from Windows Clients to the Samba server > has become slow at times. > The system waits during these times for a long time even while > performing operations using ssh such as Define "recently". If the system was runnin

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 17:46 +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > I have a squeeze server > > Linux rv1 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 15 00:56:30 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > It has a lot of free RAM and the processors also don't have much work load > > # free -m > total

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Siju George
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > When you say that it becomes slow, do you have any comparison figures > between normal and "slow" operation? > well, saving after editing crontab -e with less than 10 lines takes 5-8 seconds where as it was instantenous earlier. > Sh

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Tuesday 19 of October 2010, Siju George wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Tuesday 19 of October 2010, Siju George wrote: > > > Recently Saving/Copying files from Windows Clients to the Samba > > > server has become slow at tim

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Siju George
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Tuesday 19 of October 2010, Siju George wrote: > > > Recently Saving/Copying files from Windows Clients to the Samba server > > has become slow at times. > [...] > > What else can I do to trouble shoot this problem? > > T

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Tuesday 19 of October 2010, Siju George wrote: > Recently Saving/Copying files from Windows Clients to the Samba server > has become slow at times. [...] > What else can I do to trouble shoot this problem? The first step is to verify that this is not a problem of the Windows cl