Benchmarks

[Chris Davies]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 09:22, William Lovaton wrote:
> The problem seems to be specially network I/O between the web server and
> the database server, it seems that there is a little glitch in transfer
> speed.  A few months ago we had a serious slowness problem and it was
> because de NIC that connects to the DB (for some reason) changed to work
> Half Duplex. We were crazy trying to find the problem.
why not fix the ports at 100mb Full Duplex, no auto-negotiate?

You would need to do this on the switch and on the machine.  I believe
mii-tool will allow you to Force a connection to 100baseTx-FD.

> But right now I guess the problem starts to be CPU power.  I'm really
> looking forward to Fedora Core 2 and try the new kernel.
looking again at what you posted with top, cpu is not your problem.