[ic] Interchange slows down over time

[Thomas J.M. Burton]

On 5/31/2011 12:49 PM, Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Thomas J.M. Burton (tom at globalfocusdm.com):
>> On 5/31/2011 11:21 AM, Mike Heins wrote:
>>> **SNIP**
>>> How much memory is on the machine? And when you do the "free" command,
>>> what do you get?
>>>
>>> Here it is on one of our Interchange servers:
>>>
>>>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>> Mem:       4138260    3866636     271624          0     153168    1415504
>>> -/+ buffers/cache:    2297964    1840296
>>> Swap:      5156856         72    5156784
>>>
>>> You can see that there is plenty of memory, and that swap is not used
>>> at all to speak of.
>>> **SNIP**
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Seeing this response to Margus' question prompted me to check my own
>> Interchange sever's "free" output, with the following result:
>>
>>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>
>> Mem:       3356092    3005220     350872          0         96    2481292
>>
>> -/+ buffers/cache:     523832    2832260
>>
>> Swap:      8388600      18832    8369768
>>
>>
>> ... which leads me to wonder about the buffers. For optimal
>> Interchange performance, should I be seeing more use of the buffers
>> in conjunction with a lower use of swaps? (I should probably note
>> that this server is also running a number of PHP/MySQL sites in
>> addition to serving several Interchange catalogs).
> Buffers really depend on what is going on with your devices. If you have
> a system with low traffic, there isn't that much to buffer so use will
> be small. In other words, don't worry about it -- Linux will worry about
> it for you.
>
> Your "free" looks pretty good to me, I think you have plenty of memory.
>

Thanks, Mike! That's good to know. :)

Best,
Tom

-- 
_______________________________
Global Focus Digital Media, LLC
www.globalfocusdm.com



!DSPAM:4de54e38165007840413409!