It looks like your problem may be with the Virtual IO partition rather than with your Linux partition. I would start there and look back over your configurations for that. IBM has some good documentation on LPARs and VIO on their web site. On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:27:32 +0530 unix syzadmin <unixsyzadmin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, > > We have setup 2 LPARs (Logical Partitions) on IBM p5-550. > One for AIX 5.3, The 2nd one for the RHEL AS4. > The server has 4 CPU's and 8GB RAM. It has two 140GB hard disk. > The 2 LPAR's are configured with a virtual ethernet client and > virtual > SCSI client. > > We have created 2 volume groups and each volume group containing 2 > logical > volumes. We have assiged 2 logical volumes to each virtual host. > > The CPU and memory is divided as follows > VIO partition -->.5 (5 Virtual processors), 512MB RAM > AIX partition --> 1.7 (17 Virtual processors), 3.5GB RAM > RedHat AS4 partition -->1.7 (17 Virtual processors), 3.5GB RAM > > Just see a sample of output of ping to another server in the network > from > RHEL AS4. > > [root@bangpcplin1 ~]# ping bangpcplin3 > PING bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 > time= > 21.8 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 > time= > 9.05 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 > time= > 8.97 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 > time= > 10.0 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 > time= > 13.0 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 > time= > 11.0 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 > time= > 8.98 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 > time= > 6.60 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 > time= > 10.9 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 > time= > 9.98 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 > time= > 10.0 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 > time= > 7.92 ms > 64 bytes from bangpcplin3.bea.com (172.22.43.47): icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 > time= > 9.98 ms > > --- bangpcplin3.bea.com ping statistics --- > 13 packets transmitted, 13 received, 0% packet loss, time 12088ms > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.605/10.650/21.824/3.557 ms, pipe 2 > [root@bangpcplin1 ~]# > > Also see a sample output of "iostat 5" > > [root@bangpcplin1 ~]# iostat 5 > Linux 2.6.9-5.EL (bangpcplin1) 12/14/2005 > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle > 0.82 0.00 0.43 1.13 97.62 > > Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read > Blk_wrtn > sda 10.61 140.42 63.16 142819579 > 64242894 > sdb 1.83 35.94 25.10 36551596 > 25528376 > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle > 0.03 0.00 2.69 3.08 94.20 > > Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read > Blk_wrtn > sda 102.19 1011.95 309.16 5080 > 1552 > sdb 36.25 290.04 0.00 1456 > 0 > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle > 0.12 0.00 2.78 4.01 93.09 > > Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read > Blk_wrtn > sda 92.79 1463.73 1.60 7304 > 8 > sdb 29.86 235.67 4.81 1176 > 24 > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle > 0.02 0.00 2.60 3.88 93.50 > > Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read > Blk_wrtn > sda 128.80 2056.00 0.00 10280 > 0 > sdb 0.40 0.00 4.80 0 > 24 > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle > 0.04 0.00 2.79 3.35 93.83 > > Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read > Blk_wrtn > sda 162.28 1534.53 621.16 7688 > 3112 > sdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 > 0 > > > Thanks & Regards, > > -GnanaShekar- > > > > On 12/14/05, Smith, Albert <Albert.Smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Without knowing more about the configuration of your system and of > the > > application there is very little go on. Can you provide more > details? > > > > Albert Smith > > Sr. Unix Systems Administrator > > HPCSA, RHCT > > Genex Services > > 440 E. Swedesford Rd. > > Wayne, PA 19087 > > albert.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > (610) 964-5154 > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of unix > syzadmin > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:54 PM > > > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: linux server slow. > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > The users in my team are running tests for weblogic on linux > > > (RHEL AS4). We generally run test for weblogic on different > > > operating system and certify it. > > > They have complained that the linux server is slow. A test > > > that usually would take 30 mins is taking about 5 hours. > > > They have not faced this kind of slowness with any other > > > server (solaris, aix & hp-unix), even the earlier servers > > > that were running linux. > > > > > > I am new to troubleshooting performance problems. 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