Performance Question

[Peter Bonivart]

Does the below table mean you only have one drive in the system or is it
just an example?

Are you syslogging to the same physical drive as the one holding your
queues? Since syslog seems to be a big factor in your performance you
could ease the load by writing to another physical drive (not just
another partition). Also, SCSI drives should handle your load better
than IDE drives.

/Peter Bonivart

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20030829

Alan Fiebig wrote:
> Here are 10, 5 second interval samples from iostat:
>
> Time: 01:02:47 PM
> Device:  rrqm/s wrqm/s   r/s   w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
> hda        5.84 125.76  1.91 53.40   57.90 1252.20    23.68     6.47  116.90  38.38  21.23
> hda1       0.01   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.03    0.00    26.90     0.00  123.19 105.80   0.00
> hda2       5.27 104.76  1.79 43.51   56.43 1187.10    27.45     4.87  107.42  45.41  20.57
> hda3       0.00   0.28  0.01  0.15    0.09    3.46    22.73     0.07  470.85  61.23   0.10
> hda5       0.39  20.42  0.10  9.30    0.99   60.13     6.50     1.48  157.90  23.70   2.23
> hda6       0.17   0.30  0.01  0.45    0.36    1.49     4.06     0.04   92.73  49.28   0.23
> hda7       0.00   0.00  0.00  0.00    0.00    0.00     8.00     0.00  100.00 100.00   0.00