btrace is installed by the blktrace package. Its a script which runs
blktrace and passes the output to blkparse.

yum install -y blktrace

Then btrace should be in /bin/ and in /usr/bin


On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Fabien Rouach <fabien.rou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have btrace on my centos 7 server, what should I install?
> is blktrace doing the same thing?
>
>
> Le mercredi 14 mars 2018 07:40:50 UTC-4, quadstor a écrit :
>>
>> Please send the diagnostics file.
>>
>> Also a btrace output
>> btrace -w 120 <device>  > /tmp/btrace.out
>>
>> Where <device> will be the device path of the RAID device configured
>> in the storage pool. If there are multiple devices please run btrace
>> against all devices configured in the pool. Also btrace needs to be
>> run during the backup when its slow.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:55 AM, Fabien Rouach <fabien...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> > I've bee doing several test on quadstor vtl, and had nice perf (close to
>> > 100MB/s sometimes)
>> > decided to switch to disk backup using quadstor storage, and perf are
>> > very
>> > low on same hardware (only a couple of MB/s)
>> >
>> > using HP servers
>> > DL380 g6 / smart array p410
>> > DL380 g8 / smart P420 or P822
>> >
>> > sata drives (12x 4TB 5900rpm or 22x 1TB 7200rpm) raid 5 or 6
>> >
>> > all accesses or done through 4Gb/s FC
>> >
>> > once switches to quadstor storage, i can see on the quadstor system in
>> > iostat that disk at 100% almost all the time, with between 500KB and
>> > sometime up to 7-8MB transfer (but more rare)
>> >
>> > could it be something related with block size the storage is writing,
>> > compared to VTL to make the RAID controler saturating or something likt
>> > that?
>> >
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