On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 14:42 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > Lets pool some knowledge together because at this point, I'm missing > something. > > I've been doing all measurements with sar as bonnie, etc, causes builds to > timeout. > > Problem: We're seeing slower then normal disk IO. At least I think we > are. This is a PERC5/E and MD1000 array. > > When I try to do a normal copy "cp -adv /mnt/koji/packages /tmp/" I get > around 4-6MBytes/s This _might_ not be "IO" in a normal sense, -a to cp means: file data + file inode + ACLs + selinux + xattrs [+ file capabilities] ...esp. given that you aren't getting large IOWait times, you might want to strace -T the cp and do some perl/whatever on the result to see what is eating up the time. This is a straight 5.2, yeh? -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list