Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 03.02.2015 um 10:14 schrieb Joseph L. Brunner: Lol - spinning disks? Really? SSD is down to like 50cents a gig. And they have 1TB disks... slow disks = you get what you deserve... welcome to 2015. Autolacing shoes, self drying jackets, hoverboards - oh, yeah, and 110k IOPS 1TB SamSung Pro

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-03 Thread Joseph L. Brunner
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 12:42 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: I

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread SilverTip257
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Thanks John, I ran your script and here is the output for it: Start of the Output*** [root@localhost bin]# lsi-raidinfo sh: /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64: No such file or directory Do you

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/2/2015 8:11 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: disk 252:1 | 0-0-0 | 9XG7TNQVST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:2 | 0-0-1 | 9XG4M4X3ST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:3 | 0-1-1 | 9XG4LY7JST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:4 | 0-1-0 | 9XG51233ST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/2/2015 8:52 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: So , You dont think that any configuration changes like increasing the number of volumes or anything else will help in reducing the I/O wait time ? not by much. it might reduce the overhead if you use LVM volumes for virtual disks instead of using

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Jatin Davey
On 2/3/2015 10:44 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/2/2015 8:52 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: So , You dont think that any configuration changes like increasing the number of volumes or anything else will help in reducing the I/O wait time ? not by much. it might reduce the overhead if you use LVM

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: I will test and get the I/O speed results with the following and see what works best with the given workload: Create 5 volumes each with 150 GB in size for the 5 VMs that i will be running on the server Create 1 volume

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Jatin Davey
On 2/2/2015 10:32 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/1/2015 8:25 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: On 2/2/2015 9:25 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/1/2015 7:31 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: I ran your script and here is the output for it: Start of the Output*** [root@localhost bin]#

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 02/02/2015 08:52 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: So , You dont think that any configuration changes like increasing the number of volumes or anything else will help in reducing the I/O wait time ? No, because that won't change the number of heads that are present to service the IO requests, nor

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Jatin Davey
On 2/3/2015 10:00 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/2/2015 8:11 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: disk 252:1 | 0-0-0 | 9XG7TNQVST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:2 | 0-0-1 | 9XG4M4X3ST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:3 | 0-1-1 | 9XG4LY7JST91000640NS CC03 | Online, Spun Up disk 252:4 |

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-02 Thread Jatin Davey
On 2/3/2015 11:06 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 02/02/2015 08:52 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: So , You dont think that any configuration changes like increasing the number of volumes or anything else will help in reducing the I/O wait time ? No, because that won't change the number of heads that

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-02-01 Thread Jatin Davey
On 1/30/2015 9:44 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/29/2015 7:21 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: [root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep RAID 05:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] (rev 02) to get info out of those, you need to install MegaCli64 from LSI Logic,

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/29/2015 07:21 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: [root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep RAID 05:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] (rev 02) I'd expect some pretty good numbers from that with a 4 disk RAID 10. As before, SSD will perform better. If you

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 1/29/2015 4:50 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/28/2015 04:32 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: Could someone point me on how to improve the disk I/O on my server and reduce the wait time on I/O. Start by identifying your disk and controller. Assuming that this is a single SATA disk: # smartctl

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 1/28/2015 11:07 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/28/2015 4:32 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: I am using RHEL 6.5 on my server. From top command i can see that the processors in my server are spending a lot of time on wait for I/O. I can see high percentage in terms of 30-50% on wa time. Here is the

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: [Jatin] Yes , entire disk is mounted on a single file system. Will this cause high wait time for I/O operations ? Do you think splitting it into multiple partitions would help ? Appreciate if you can enlighten me in this

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/29/2015 05:07 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: Yes , it is a SATA disk. I am not sure of the speed. Can you tell me how to find out this information ? Additionally we are using RAID 10 configuration with 4 disks. What RAID controller are you using? # lspci | grep RAID

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread Jatin Davey
On 1/30/2015 1:53 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/29/2015 05:07 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: Yes , it is a SATA disk. I am not sure of the speed. Can you tell me how to find out this information ? Additionally we are using RAID 10 configuration with 4 disks. What RAID controller are you using? #

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/29/2015 7:21 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: [root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep RAID 05:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108 [Invader] (rev 02) to get info out of those, you need to install MegaCli64 from LSI Logic, which has the ugliest command lines and output

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-28 Thread David Both
+1 And remember that I/O is more than just disk. The atop monitor gives you information like top and htop, but also provides a lot of I/O information as well including network. Perhaps your server is the target of a network-based DDOS attack which can cause lots of I/O wait time. Also look at

[CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-28 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi Users I am using RHEL 6.5 on my server. From top command i can see that the processors in my server are spending a lot of time on wait for I/O. I can see high percentage in terms of 30-50% on wa time. Here is the df output about the disk space in my system: ** [root@localhost

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-28 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
On 01/28/2015 01:32 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: Hi Users I am using RHEL 6.5 on my server. From top command i can see that the processors in my server are spending a lot of time on wait for I/O. I can see high percentage in terms of 30-50% on wa time. Here is the df output about the disk space in

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-28 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
On 01/28/2015 03:32 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: Could someone point me on how to improve the disk I/O on my server and reduce the wait time on I/O. Fisrt of all, you should ensure how fast are your disks. There are several methods to check that:

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/28/2015 4:32 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: I am using RHEL 6.5 on my server. From top command i can see that the processors in my server are spending a lot of time on wait for I/O. I can see high percentage in terms of 30-50% on wa time. Here is the df output about the disk space in my system:

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-28 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/28/2015 9:37 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 1/28/2015 4:32 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: Could someone point me on how to improve the disk I/O on my server and reduce the wait time on I/O. ... oops, left off the last part.To improve disk IO performance, use more/faster disks, or

Re: [CentOS] Very slow disk I/O

2015-01-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/28/2015 04:32 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: Could someone point me on how to improve the disk I/O on my server and reduce the wait time on I/O. Start by identifying your disk and controller. Assuming that this is a single SATA disk: # smartctl -a /dev/sda | egrep 'Model:|Rate:|SATA Version'