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Re: "mutt -y" speed



On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 03:05:28AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> Perhaps it is just a dcache problem. Perhaps you can see anything in
> /proc/slabinfo or you could try to run find first? Could be that memory is

What do the columns in slabinfo mean?

> filled up and therefore the cache for the directory entries does not grow as
> needed. Are you sure switching off ldap helps in all cases? do you run nscd?

[504] [snoopy:unstable:bam] ~ >free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:        126340     122432       3908          0      37632
34996
-/+ buffers/cache:      49804      76536
Swap:       390456      83860     306596

snoopy:unstable:~# /etc/init.d/nscd stop
Stopping Name Service Cache Daemon: nscd.
snoopy:unstable:~# /etc/init.d/nscd start
Starting Name Service Cache Daemon: nscd.
snoopy:unstable:~# logout
[506] [snoopy:unstable:bam] ~ >free               
             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:        126340     121544       4796          0      31288
36328
-/+ buffers/cache:      53928      72412
Swap:       390456      83860     306596

now the problem has gone away... Interesting.

Might be something to do with nscd not caching properly, maybe?

I will check the memory usage of nscd tommorrow, for now:

[507] [snoopy:unstable:bam] ~ >ps auwx | grep nscd
root     16854  0.0  1.4 14720 1776 ?        S    12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
root     16855  0.0  1.4 14720 1776 ?        S    12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
root     16856  0.0  1.4 14720 1776 ?        S    12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
root     16857  0.0  1.4 14720 1776 ?        S    12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
root     16858  0.0  1.4 14720 1776 ?        S    12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
root     16859  0.0  1.4 14720 1776 ?        S    12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
root     16860  0.0  1.4 14720 1776 ?        S    12:13   0:00 /usr/sbin/nscd
bam      16923  0.0  0.4  1616  584 pts/1    S    12:16   0:00 grep nscd
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>


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