Re: pgfoundry moved ...

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Gavin M. Roy wrote:

> Hmm, that is interesting. I have no experience in troubleshooting jails, but
> that server was a pgsql db server (on Gentoo Linux) prior to being borg, and
> has been very quick under heavy loads without any I/O issues.

I just removed svr2 as being a relay point for outgoing list emails ...
looking at iostat 5 on that machine, the CPU was wrong close to 0 idle,
whereas now seems to be closer to 100 ... might have been throwing too
much into the works ;(

Does that make a difference for anyone?

> > Gavin
>
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>>> If there are performance issues on www.postgresql.org it seems silly not
>>> to use borg. The machine is way under utilized and you have more than
>>> enough donated bandwidth to play with there.
>>>
>>
>> The only performance issues related to the base www site right now I
>> think is the fact that I/O is horribly slow in the jail for svr2 (which
>> runs wwwmaster) and that one is already on borg IIRC. The mirror script
>> runs a *lot* faster on a heavily loaded linux server that I've tested it
>> on. Not sure if it's the I/O bw on borg that's over the edge, or if it's
>> the jails themselves causing it. I know Dave talked about comparing I/O
>> on the main host vs the jails, not sure if he ever got through to doing
>> it.
>>
>>
>> //Magnus
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