Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-10 Thread Les Mikesell
John Doe wrote: > # iostat -m -x 10 > Linux 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 (data1.iol) 09/10/2009 > Are you also following the 'Excessive NFS operations' thread? There's some interesting information there about buggy kernels and apps. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _

Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-10 Thread John Doe
# iostat -m -x 10 Linux 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 (data1.iol) 09/10/2009 . . . avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.200.000.318.790.00 90.70 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/srMB/swMB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util cciss/

Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-10 Thread Les Mikesell
James Pearson wrote: > John Doe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We have a storage server (HP DL360G5 + MSA20 (12 disks in RAID 6) on a >> SmartArray6400). >> 10 directories are exported through nfs to 10 clients >> (rsize=32768,wsize=32768,soft,intr,nosuid,proto=udp,vers=3). >> The server is apparently not d

Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-10 Thread James Pearson
John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > We have a storage server (HP DL360G5 + MSA20 (12 disks in RAID 6) on a > SmartArray6400). > 10 directories are exported through nfs to 10 clients > (rsize=32768,wsize=32768,soft,intr,nosuid,proto=udp,vers=3). > The server is apparently not doing much but... we have very

Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-09 Thread John R Pierce
John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > We have a storage server (HP DL360G5 + MSA20 (12 disks in RAID 6) on a > SmartArray6400). > 10 directories are exported through nfs to 10 clients > (rsize=32768,wsize=32768,soft,intr,nosuid,proto=udp,vers=3). > The server is apparently not doing much but... we have very

Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-09 Thread Eugene Vilensky
> Do you think nfs is the problem here? > If so, is there something wrong with our config? > Is it too much to have 10 dir x 10 clients, even if there is almost no > traffic? This has very little to do with the number of clients or directories, except that in general terms more users = more work.

Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-09 Thread Alan McKay
> How about running iostat -x ? Sounds like the system is doing a lot > more than you think it is.. You might want to set yourself up with a performance monitoring system like Munin to give you more extensive data, as well. If you get that far, you'll find the iostat plugin to be a bit lacking -

Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-09 Thread nate
John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > We have a storage server (HP DL360G5 + MSA20 (12 disks in RAID 6) on a > SmartArray6400). > 10 directories are exported through nfs to 10 clients > (rsize=32768,wsize=32768,soft,intr,nosuid,proto=udp,vers=3). > The server is apparently not doing much but... we have very hi

[CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-09 Thread John Doe
Hi, We have a storage server (HP DL360G5 + MSA20 (12 disks in RAID 6) on a SmartArray6400). 10 directories are exported through nfs to 10 clients (rsize=32768,wsize=32768,soft,intr,nosuid,proto=udp,vers=3). The server is apparently not doing much but... we have very high waiting IOs. dstat show