I need help.
I am struggling with trying to find and answer as to why my server performance has significantly deteriorated over the last two weeks, and I confess, I am a novice in Mac OS X Server admin. The following is a dump from vm_stats showing a lot of page faults (this reading was taken within 10 minutes after a system restart):
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free: 138349.
Pages active: 28181.
Pages inactive: 78070.
Pages wired down: 17544.
“Translation faults”: 960432.
Pages copy-on-write: 34922.
Pages zero filled: 492636.
Pages reactivated: 0.
Pageins: 23507.
Pageouts: 0.
Object cache: 5321 hits of 10072 lookups (52% hit rate)
FYI: we’re running 10.4.8 on a 1.5 Ghz Mac Mini booting form an external 300 GB firewire drive. Please no chiding because we are using the Mini. It had actually been working QUITE well up until two weeks ago.
Guidance and possible hands-on assistance will be GREATLY appreciated.