Re: Bad iostat numbers

Carlos H. Reimer wrote:

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> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %idle
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> 50.40 0.00 0.50 1.10 48.00
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> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s
> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
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> sda 0.00 7.80 0.40 6.40 41.60 113.60 20.80
> 56.80 22.82 570697.50 10.59 147.06 100.00
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> sdb 0.20 7.80 0.60 6.40 40.00 113.60 20.00
> 56.80 21.94 570697.50 9.83 142.86 100.00
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> md1 0.00 0.00 1.20 13.40 81.60 107.20 40.80
> 53.60 12.93 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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> md0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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> Are they not saturated?
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> What kind of parameters should I pay attention when comparing SCSI
> controllers and disks? I would like to discover how much cache is
> present in the controller, how can I find this value from Linux?
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These number look a bit strange. I am wondering if there is a hardware
problem on one of the drives
or on the controller. Check in syslog for messages about disk timeouts
etc. 100% util but 6 writes/s
is just wrong (unless the drive is a 1980's vintage floppy).