Re: Hardware spec

* Willo van der Merwe:

> Good advice. After running a vmstat and iostat, it is clear, to my
> mind anyway, that the most likely bottleneck is IO, next is probably
> some more RAM.

> Here's the output:
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
> ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us
> sy id wa
> 0 0 29688 80908 128308 3315792 0 0 8 63 6 8 17
> 2 80 1

You need to run "vmstat 10" (for ten-second averages) and report a
couple of lines.

> avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
> 17.18 0.00 1.93 0.81 80.08

Same for iostat.

Your initial numbers suggest that your server isn't I/O-bound, though
(the percentage spent in iowait is much too small, and so are the tps
numbers).

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