Thanks in advance for any help with this problem:
We are currently running Tru64 Unix 4.0F on a DECserver 2100/500MP with 256MB of memory and a swap area of roughly 200MB. We previously had been running this machine as our web/ftp server with Digital Unix 3.2B   We have temporarily moved our web pages to a SunServer where we are getting very quick response. When we try using the latest httpd version 1.5 to run these pages on our Tru64 Unix box we get horrible response times. Same network and the machine is almost completely idle. When we were running 3.2B we had great response time on this Alpha machine. The response is almost 100 times worse than the SunServer, or the Alpha when we had 3.2B running. The former administrator of this machine no longer works for us and the notes for set-up were non-existent. 4.0F was installed with a Standard default choice.
Here is a snapshot using a utility when a single person hits the web page:
load averages:  0.01,  0.02,  0.00                                                                    01:23:22
45 processes:  1 running, 22 sleeping, 18 idle, 4 zombie
CPU states:  0.5% user,  0.0% nice,  1.5% system, 97.9% idle
Memory: Real: 36M/245M act/tot  Virtual: 196M use/tot  Free: 184M
  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME    CPU COMMAND
  609 WWW       44    0 3120K  581K sleep   0:00  0.40% <httpd>
  617 root      44    0 2592K  393K run     0:03  0.30% <top>
  610 WWW       44    0 3120K  532K sleep   0:00  0.20% <httpd>
  608 WWW       44    0 3120K  573K sleep   0:00  0.10% <httpd>
  561 root      44    0 7000K 1851K sleep   0:03  0.00% <Xdec>
  467 root      42    0 6256K 2785K sleep   0:01  0.00% <insightd>
  423 root      44    0 2848K  630K sleep   0:00  0.00% <cpq_mibs>
  179 root      44    0 2280K  589K sleep   0:00  0.00% <ogated>
  613 WWW       44    0 3120K  581K sleep   0:00  0.00% <httpd>
  607 WWW       44    0 3120K  581K sleep   0:00  0.00% <httpd>
  606 WWW       44    0 3120K  581K sleep   0:00  0.00% <httpd>
  615 WWW       44    0 3120K  573K sleep   0:00  0.00% <httpd>
  614 WWW       44    0 3120K  573K sleep   0:00  0.00% <httpd>
  611 WWW       44    0 3120K  573K sleep   0:00  0.00% <httpd>
  612 WWW       44    0 3120K  532K sleep   0:00  0.00% <httpd>
Here is a vmstat output:
(root) >vmstat -P
Total Physical Memory =   256.00 M
                      =    32768 pages
Physical Memory Clusters:
 start_pfn     end_pfn        type  size_pages / size_bytes
         0         256         pal         256 /    2.00M
       256       32759          os       32503 /  253.93M
     32759       32768         pal           9 /   72.00k
Physical Memory Use:
 start_pfn     end_pfn        type  size_pages / size_bytes
       256         280   unixtable          24 /  192.00k
       280         283    scavenge           3 /   24.00k
       283         614        text         331 /    2.59M
       614         678        data          64 /  512.00k
       678         790         bss         112 /  896.00k
       790         794     cfgmgmt           4 /   32.00k
       794         833   unixtable          39 /  312.00k
       833         846        pmap          13 /  104.00k
       846        1353    vmtables         507 /    3.96M
      1353       32759     managed       31406 /  245.36M
                             ============================
         Total Physical Memory Use:      32503 /  253.93M
Managed Pages Break Down:
       free pages = 20926
     active pages = 1464
   inactive pages = 2035
      wired pages = 2528
        ubc pages = 4458
        ==================
            Total = 31411
WIRED Pages Break Down:
   vm wired pages = 361
  ubc wired pages = 0
  meta data pages = 975
     malloc pages = 630
     contig pages = 74
    user ptepages = 450
  kernel ptepages = 27
    free ptepages = 9
        ==================
            Total = 2526
Any help, or suggestions (other than keeping the web pages on the Sun) would be most appreciated. Perhaps we are missing something with httpd.conf ?   We are using the file as set up on our alpha when it was running Unix 3.2B.
I'd be glad to write up a summary, thanks again...
Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 05:50:19 NZDT