[Samba] Samba performance issues

John Coston jcoston at u.washington.edu
Tue Sep 24 21:23:00 GMT 2002


here is the output of vmstat, iostat, and uname:

[root at foo root]# vmstat 1
    procs                      memory    swap          io     system     
     cpu
  r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us 
  sy  id
21  0  1      0  61384 148780 2763956   0   0     2    93   91   113  
17  26  57
17  0  2      0  61384 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  156    48  
40  60   0
14  0  1      0  61384 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  109    41  
39  61   0
11  0  1      0  61376 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  122   109  
30  70   0
15  0  3      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0    52  155   143  
47  53   0
20  0  1      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0     4  110    57  
42  58   0
20  0  1      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  108    64  
41  59   0
20  0  1      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  106    38  
42  58   0
20  0  1      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  105    65  
30  70   0
13  0  1      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0    12  200   129  
36  64   0
13  0  1      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  106    40  
27  73   0
14  0  0      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  148    70  
34  66   0
20  0  0      0  61368 148780 2763956   0   0     0     0  124    69  
41  59   0

[root at foo root]# iostat 1
Linux 2.4.18-3 (student0)       09/24/2002

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           16.71    0.00   26.26   57.02

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0           11.84         2.25       185.49     541354   44584762
dev8-1           11.83         1.68       185.49     403090   44584762

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           35.00    0.00   65.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            4.00         0.00       112.00          0        112
dev8-1            4.00         0.00       112.00          0        112

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           49.00    0.00   51.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           46.00    0.00   54.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           36.00    0.00   64.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0


avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           16.70    0.00   26.24   57.07

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0           11.85         2.25       185.63     541354   44582090
dev8-1           11.84         1.68       185.63     403090   44582090


uname -a
Linux foo 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:37:53 EDT 2002 i686 unknown

Thanks!

On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 02:04  PM, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, John Coston wrote:
>
>> it's software RAID-1 using two fast wide scsi 36 gb discs. Filesystem
>> is ext3. We have one 30gb partition for share data, and the rest is 
>> for
>> system and swap.
>> here is some of output from dmesg:
>>
>> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
>> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
>> <...>
>> scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512
>> scsi1 : sym53c8xx-1.7.3c-20010512
>> blk: queue c3c57618, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
>>    Vendor: HP        Model: 36.4GB C 80-8C32  Rev:
>>    Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> blk: queue c3c57818, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
>>    Vendor: HP 36.4G  Model: MAN3367MC         Rev: HP04
>>    Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>> <...>
>>
>> I'm not too swift on filesystems and discs, so let me know if there is
>> more info you need & thanks
>
> include output of:
>
> vmstat 1
> iostat 1
> uname -a
>
> -- 
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