On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:10:51AM -0700, Vincent Fox wrote: > > More importantly what does iostat -cxn 5 look like during peak? > For us this is 1100-1300 hours hitting about 40%. Of course this > is summertime usage so things are a bit slack here with most > students being home, not so much daily class-related chitchat. This is on a Sun T2000 with 500 GB of e-mail on a ZFS filesystem. Storage is from a Netapp using iSCSI. There are 1500 IMAP sessions, about half of what we get in the winter. I'm quite pleased with this configuration. cpu us sy wt id 4 3 0 93 extended device statistics r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b device 15.0 192.4 1000.6 1900.3 0.0 0.6 0.0 2.9 0 34 c3t0d0 15.2 275.6 941.0 2024.7 0.0 0.7 0.0 2.6 0 36 c3t3d0 -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html