On 08/11/2012 10:16 PM, Harry Mangalam wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com > > Maybe worth trying an strace (strace -f -p <pid> 2>strace.out) on the > glusterfsd process, or whatever it is which is causing the high > load, during > such a burst, just for a few seconds. The output might give some clues. > > > Good idea. I'll watch and when it goes wacko and post the filtered > results. > It might also be useful to turn on volume profiling and capture IO statistics when the load is high. 'volume profile <volname> info' provides both cumulative and interval statistics (interval being the window between execution of two consecutive volume profile infos). Thanks, Vijay