Re: Puzzling full database lock

[Christopher Opena <counterveil@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, it's strange because we definitely have periods of high iowait but this is not when the locks are happening.  If I could correlate it directly to that it would be so much easier.  Thanks again for the response!

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 05:13:15 PM Christopher Opena wrote:
> Do you mean 6-12% of total iowait, or per cpu?  Our average iowait in the
> last week is 34.31% of a total 1600% with an average idle of 1451.76%.  Our
> iowait *does* spike occasionally (today it went up to 148.01%) but it
> doesn't coincide with the lock happening.  At the time of the lock we were
> at 10.58% iowait, which is quite a bit below our average.
>

Total, but it doesn't sound like that's the problem.