On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 04:13:15PM +0000, Tom Hall wrote: > I have 2 gluster servers in replicated mode on EC2 with ~4G RAM > > CPU and RAM look fine but over time the system becomes sluggish, > particularly networking. > > I notice when sshing into the machine takes ages and running remote > commands with capistrano takes longer and longer. Do you have swap configured? Is the system going into swap? Have a look at output of "free", "vmstat 5" (for a minute or two), "iostat 5 -x" (ditto) You may need to install the "sysstat" package to get iostat.
