Hi,
We have an alpha 600 5/266 (128 MB) that we run Gaussian94 on.  We have 
noticed rather low cpu usage (~20%), possibly due to low i/o.  We tried to 
improve performance by changing ubc_maxpercent from 100 to 40, to no 
avail.  Below is some output.  Maybe it's helpful...  Any tips would be 
greatly appreciated, and if it's RTFM, please include the title :-)
Thanks for your help,
Fu-Ming
# vmstat
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
  procs    memory         pages                          intr        cpu
  r  w  u  act  free wire fault cow zero react pin pout  in  sy  cs  us  
sy  id
  2 50 13  9798 3603 1672 386K  74K  78K  170  50K    0  57  98 360  45   
6  50
# iostat
      tty     rz0      rz1      rz5      fd0     cpu
 tin tout bps tps  bps tps  bps tps  bps tps  us ni sy id
   0    7  89   5 2299  44    0   0    0   0  45  0  6 50
# swapon -s
Swap partition /dev/rz0b (default swap):
    Allocated space:        48801 pages (381MB)
    In-use space:            5893 pages ( 12%)
    Free space:             42908 pages ( 87%)
Total swap allocation:
    Allocated space:        48801 pages (381MB)
    Reserved space:          7913 pages ( 16%)
    In-use space:            5893 pages ( 12%)
    Available space:        40888 pages ( 83%)
# ps aux | more
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      S    STARTED         TIME 
COMMAND
ftao       551  9.0 25.5 49.3M  323 ??       U    19:22:35    06:44:44 
/data/g9
ftao      5034  0.0  0.3 1.87M 328K ttyp1    S    08:30:21     0:00.76 - 
(csh)
root      5033  0.0  0.9 7.99M 1.1M ??       S    08:30:20     0:02.08 
/usr/bin
root         0  0.0  4.4  129M 5.5M ??       R <  19:08:35     2:16.31 
[kernel
root      5126  0.0  0.2 1.45M 208K ttyp1    R  + 09:06:23     0:00.02 ps 
aux
ftao      5136  0.0  0.1 1.23M 112K ttyp1    S  + 09:06:23     0:00.01 head
root       456  0.0  2.4 11.3M 3.0M ??       S <  19:09:31     1:44.78 
/usr/bin
root        18  0.0  0.0  184K  24K ??       S    19:09:05     0:13.02 
/sbin/up
root         1  0.0  0.0  304K  48K ??       I    19:08:35     0:00.80 
/sbin/in 
Received on Tue Mar 05 1996 - 05:20:45 NZDT