Gentoo Archives: gentoo-performance

From: Colin Kingsley <ckingsley@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-performance@l.g.o, gpark@××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-performance] gentoo performance problem with quota.
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 21:25:27
Message-Id: 13cc2f780408011425425a2f72@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-performance] gentoo performance problem with quota. by Gyujin Park
1 I dont know anything about quotas, but I would like to point out that
2 what you continue to refer to as Gentoo issues are in fact Linux
3 issues. Gentoo includes very very minimal modifications from the
4 vanila linux kernel and GNU utilities.
5
6 On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 11:34:58 -0600, Gyujin Park <gpark@××××××.com> wrote:
7 > Wow, I just noticed a siginifcant problem with Gentoo Performance with "Quotas"
8 >
9 > according to "System Security Guide", one of the documentation, enabling quotas
10 > should not be a problem.
11 >
12 > However, I just removed quota from activating, and there was a significat
13 > improvment in memory usage, and responsiveness.
14 >
15 > HEre is the test system, y'all know.
16 >
17 > 933MHz P3 coppermine
18 > 512MB Physica Memory
19 > 40GB HDD 7200RPM
20 > 80GB HDD 1K RPM (<-- /home folders, quotas set)
21 > 1024MB Swap.
22 >
23 > The server's physical memory usage went down from,
24 >
25 > ~510MB to ~50MB
26 >
27 > when I turned off quota, and Apache2 and vsFTPD was running.
28 >
29 > The server's responsiveness to regular mysql query with 100 fields,
30 > were from
31 >
32 > 3sec to ~0.3sec.
33 >
34 > This is weird, I guess Gentoo is not too good with Quotas. I just made a clean
35 > installation to 2.6.7 Development-sources due to previous swap problem.
36 >
37 > -Tom-
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