Throughput

[Julian Field]

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Do a "vmstat 5" and track the "si" and "so" (swap in and out) figures.
With only 1Gb of RAM I would suspect it is swapping.
If so, buy more RAM.

On 25 Nov 2005, at 12:50, Wayne wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> Im getting a throughput of around 35-40k messages per day max
> The server is a dual p3 600Mhz with 1gig RAM
> Max Children is set as 14..
> Running on Fedora Core 2 with postfix and clamav for antivirus
>
> Does this sound about right? Its barley keeping up with loads
> And sometimes falls behind..
> Load averages are always between 3-7
> Do I need a new server or is there some way I can get more out of  
> this one
> with current hardware?
>
> Thanks,
>  Wayne
>
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