On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com> 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