On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:04:04PM -0500, Chuck wrote:
>
> I am more than amazed at the server usage statics I am presented with
> every time I check them, initially to the point I kept verifying that
> the guests were running and all was well!!!
>
> We have a 4 processor machine with 3gb ram installed presently running
> 9 guests, 5 of which are quite busy.
>
> 3 name servers all of which are authority servers for several thousand
> domains.
>
> 1 radius server that is busy enough i must kill the log tail to be
> able to read it
>
> 1 smtp gateway that is also busy enough i cannot read the log via tail
>
> 2 monitoring systems that test and graph our entire network and page
> us if there are problems
>
> 1 dsl authentication server handling more than 200 client
> routers/modems
>
> 1 medium load web server
>
> When each of these were running on their own servers, they used a
> reasonable amount of resources.
>
> All combined are only using the below resources.. the friggin machine
> is loafing!!
>
> vtop:
>
> top - 11:34:09 up 20 days, 12:28, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.11, 0.09
> Tasks: 229 total, 1 running, 228 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu0 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> Cpu1 : 1.5% us, 1.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.5% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> Cpu2 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> Cpu3 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
> Mem: 3115504k total, 2719776k used, 395728k free, 218160k buffers
> Swap: 3903784k total, 980k used, 3902804k free, 1657892k cached
>
>
> free:
>
> phoenix vservers # free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 3115504 2718772 396732 0 223788 1658112
> -/+ buffers/cache: 836872 2278632
> Swap: 3903784 980 3902804
>
>
> This boggles my mind. They seem to be impossibly low usage rates for
> a host which runs ntpd serving every machine in our organization and
> all of our customers, a caching name server for the guests, a pvt
> jabber/conferencing server and several critical services itself, and
> 9 guests! I now feel confident enough in this system to move 30 more
> servers over to it :)
great!
such feedback is really appreciated ...
(makes us all proud of our work)
> THANK YOU VSERVER DEVELOPMENT TEAM!!!!
(in the name of all others)
you are very welcome!
thanks again,
Herbert
> --
>
> Chuck
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Received on Fri Nov 11 04:20:18 2005