Re: High load and iowait but no disk access

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rémy Beaumont <remyb(at)medrium(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: High load and iowait but no disk access
Date: 2005-08-30 16:15:51
Message-ID: 22417.1125418551@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9my_Beaumont?= <remyb(at)medrium(dot)com> writes:
> The stats of the NetApp do confirm that it is sitting idle.

Really?

> CPU NFS CIFS HTTP Total Net kB/s Disk kB/s Tape kB/s
> Cache Cache CP CP Disk DAFS FCP iSCSI FCP kB/s
> in out read write read write
> age hit time ty util in out
> 2% 0 0 0 139 0 0 2788 0 0 0
> 3 96% 0% - 15% 0 139 0 3 2277
> 2% 0 0 0 144 0 0 2504 0 0 0
> 3 96% 0% - 18% 0 144 0 3 2150
> 2% 0 0 0 130 0 0 2212 0 0 0
> 3 96% 0% - 13% 0 130 0 3 1879
> 3% 0 0 0 169 0 0 2937 80 0 0
> 3 96% 0% - 13% 0 169 0 4 2718
> 2% 0 0 0 139 0 0 2448 0 0 0
> 3 96% 0% - 12% 0 139 0 3 2096

I know zip about NetApps, but doesn't the 8th column indicate pretty
steady disk reads?

regards, tom lane

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