On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I have an OpenVZ VPS running arch. >>> For some reason pacman is superslow, and I'm not allowed to create/use >>> loopback devices. >>> pacman-optimize takes nearly 5 minutes per run, no matter the last run >>> was just a minute ago. >> >> Unhelpful++ >> >> * Filesystem >> * Block device configuration >> * Total RAM, free -m output >> * uptime load avg numbers >> >> -Dan >> > > FS: Reiserfs (/dev/simfs / 30 GB usrquota grpquota) > 512 MB RAM, normally only 256 used. > Load Average ~ 1-5 (Instant) This is neither `free -m` output or `uptime` output. Buffers and cache values are important, thus the original request. At least I don't have time to debug issues when I don't get the *full* details I ask for. `df -h` would be good too, but I'm not going to waste my time here unless you offer some help and at least attempt to look into this on your own. With a load average between 1 and 5, I'm guessing you have several tasks high on disk I/O. I would recommend digging into `vmstat` and `iotop -o` output and doing debugging of your own. -Dan
