> > With multipath set up to access a SAN with some number of LUNs
> > and for this question 2 paths set for round robin, how can the
> > I/O stats be seen/gathered to see the throughput on each path
> > and how balanced the I/O is?
>
> I think we can do this. multiptha -l tells you what disks are combined
> to form a mapper path. Then you can use iostat to check I/O stats of
> each disk along with each mapper. It won't be hard to write a shell
> script to re-print the lines of iostat nicely, grouping the lines of the
> disks under their respective mapper path.
>
> Yong Huang
>
> ===========================
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> This is the output of just one of the mpaths that I monitored for a
> while.
>
> mpath13 (360060e8005491000000049100000703c) dm-0 HP,OPEN-V
> [size=10G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw]
> \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active]
> \_ 2:0:0:2 sdaa 65:160 [active][undef]
> \_ 2:0:1:2 sdam 66:96 [active][undef]
> \_ 1:0:0:2 sdc 8:32 [active][undef]
> \_ 1:0:1:2 sdo 8:224 [active][undef]
>
>
> Below is the command I used and the results. I know this is a small
> sampling and I have eliminated the ones that had 0 I/O to save space
> here. But it appears the I/O is not really being done round-robin as I
> think it should be. You will notice sdam and sdb are the only ones that
> do any I/O. Now maybe this is because of some preferred path and
> controller relationship, I don't know. Any help understanding this would
> be helpful.
>
> iostat -d -p sdaa -p sdam -p sdc -p sdb -p dm-0 2 20 > /tmp/zzxx
>
> Linux 2.6.18-164.el5PAE (h0009) 05/20/2010
>
> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
> sdaa 1.53 49.43 15.03 60932848 18523880
> sdam 1.53 49.35 15.10 60833016 18616608
> sdc 1.53 49.41 15.04 60905568 18542936
> sdb 1.38 57.21 3.68 70522704 4533144
> dm-0 32.23 197.56 60.24 243542080 74259264
>
> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
> sdaa 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
> sdam 4.50 72.00 0.00 144 0
> sdc 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0
> sdb 4.50 72.00 0.00 144 0
> dm-0 9.00 72.00 0.00 144 0
>
> ...
Jack,
You can look at the first iteration of your iostat output, which is the accumulative stats since bootup (the later iterations are each a 2-second sample). If your iostat had argument -p sdo instead of -p sdb (it must be a typo compared with the outpuf of your multipath command), you would see all four paths have almost perfectly equal I/O stats, because all your paths are active. Numbers below this accumulative stats indicate your currently selected paths are sdam and (likely) sdo (not shown due to typo). After rr_min_io seconds I think, they'll switch to the other two paths.
Your multipath command seems to have the 4 path lines missing leading space; they should be indented below the priority group line.
Is it OK you show me the first part of /etc/multipath.conf, uncommented lines before the actual multipaths section?
BTW, I used a wrong word in my last message. Instead of "disk", I really should say "device".
Yong Huang
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