[389-users] Re: disk i/o: very high write rates and poor search performance

2018-08-15 Thread William Brown
On Wed, 2018-08-15 at 11:03 -0600, Rich Megginson wrote: > On 08/15/2018 10:56 AM, David Boreham wrote: > > > > > > On 8/15/2018 10:36 AM, Rich Megginson wrote: > > > > > > Updating the csn generator and the uuid generator will cause a > > > lot of > > > churn in dse.ldif. There are other

[389-users] Re: Multi-master replication broken - duplicate replica IDs?

2018-08-15 Thread William Brown
On Tue, 2018-08-14 at 21:46 +, Devon Peters wrote: > Hi folks, > > We've got multi-master replication setup between two masters. The > replication recently broke after being stable for a few years, and in > troubleshooting it appears that the issue is that both masters have > the same

[389-users] Re: LDBM recommended Setting

2018-08-15 Thread William Brown
On Tue, 2018-08-14 at 10:36 -0600, David Boreham wrote: > > While it is true that you want to have the highest possible hit ratio > on the two kinds of cache slapd maintains in order to achieve optimal > read performance, you _can_ simply configure quite small caches for > slapd (e.g. 1 few

[389-users] Re: disk i/o: very high write rates and poor search performance

2018-08-15 Thread Rich Megginson
On 08/15/2018 10:56 AM, David Boreham wrote: On 8/15/2018 10:36 AM, Rich Megginson wrote: Updating the csn generator and the uuid generator will cause a lot of churn in dse.ldif.  There are other housekeeping tasks which will write dse.ldif But if those things were being done so

[389-users] Re: disk i/o: very high write rates and poor search performance

2018-08-15 Thread David Boreham
On 8/15/2018 10:36 AM, Rich Megginson wrote: Updating the csn generator and the uuid generator will cause a lot of churn in dse.ldif.  There are other housekeeping tasks which will write dse.ldif But if those things were being done so frequently that the resulting filesystem I/O showed

[389-users] Re: disk i/o: very high write rates and poor search performance

2018-08-15 Thread Rich Megginson
On 08/15/2018 10:13 AM, David Boreham wrote: in strace.log: [pid 8088] 12:55:39.739539 poll([{fd=435, events=POLLOUT}], 1, 180 [pid 8058] 12:55:39.739573 <... write resumed> ) = 1 <0.87> [pid 8088] 12:55:39.739723 <... poll resumed> ) = 1 ([{fd=435, revents=POLLOUT}]) <0.000168>

[389-users] Re: disk i/o: very high write rates and poor search performance

2018-08-15 Thread David Boreham
in strace.log: [pid 8088] 12:55:39.739539 poll([{fd=435, events=POLLOUT}], 1, 180 [pid 8058] 12:55:39.739573 <... write resumed> ) = 1 <0.87> [pid 8088] 12:55:39.739723 <... poll resumed> ) = 1 ([{fd=435, revents=POLLOUT}]) <0.000168> [pid 8058] 12:55:39.739754 write(426, "dn:

[389-users] Re: disk i/o: very high write rates and poor search performance

2018-08-15 Thread Jan Kowalsky
Hi all, thanks for answering, it took some time until I came again to this problem. Am 09.08.2018 um 10:44 schrieb Ludwig Krispenz: > > On 08/09/2018 01:53 AM, William Brown wrote: >> Sadly this doesn't tell us much :( > we could get a pstack along with iotop to see which threads do teh IO,