AP> Questions:
AP> a) which linux kernel version is it?
AP> b) what kind of a disk is it? IDE or SCSI?
AP> c) what raw speed do you from the disk? do
AP> 'time dd if=/dev/hdxxx of=/dev/null bs=64k count=10000'
HDD is IDE - Quantum lct10, 5400 rpm - yes, it's slow.
But I compared with MSSQL on the same PC with the same HDD...
# cat </proc/version
Linux version 2.2.16 (root@pm) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #5 Thu Dec 7 15:34:44
YEKT2000
# time dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/null bs=64k count=10000
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
real 3m33.731s
user 0m0.020s
sys 2m37.960s
# hdparm /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 0 (off)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 2482/255/63, sectors = 39876480, start = 0
# cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
4096
# ipcs -l -s
------ Semaphore Limits --------
max number of arrays = 128
max semaphores per array = 250
max semaphores system wide = 32000
max ops per semop call = 100
semaphore max value = 32767
# ipcs -l -m
------ Shared Memory Limits --------
max number of segments = 128
max seg size (kbytes) = 131072
max total shared memory (kbytes) = 16777216
min seg size (bytes) = 1
Posmaster runned as:
$ postmaster -B 8000 -D /sql/data
vmstat's results during my SQL request
# vmstat
procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
1 0 0 0 2036 68216 23652 0 0 199 2 1712 44 1 22 78
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Best regards,
Paul mailto:magamos@mail.ru
