Changed to COSS, it's amazing now I have avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle 1.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 98.99 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util ida/c0d0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 ida/c0d1 0.00 0.00 0.99 0.99 15.84 7.92 7.92 3.96 12.00 0.02 11.00 11.00 2.18 vmstat 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 208 14944 6124 503996 0 0 104 112 70 53 1 1 87 10 0 0 208 14880 6124 503996 0 0 0 0 1533 362 2 1 98 0 0 0 208 14816 6140 503980 0 0 28 1072 1442 359 1 1 93 5 0 0 208 14816 6140 503980 0 0 0 0 1426 339 2 1 98 0 0 0 208 14816 6140 503980 0 0 16 0 1381 316 2 1 98 1 0 0 208 14816 6140 503980 0 0 24 0 1424 345 1 0 98 0 0 0 208 14816 6140 503980 0 0 0 0 1430 352 2 1 98 0 BTW, the disks are in a RAID Controller, but they are configured as separate arrays, hence there's no duplexing of the IO. Best Regards, Pablo On 6/11/07, squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The objects being cached are 32K at most, > this is the busiest line of iostat -x I got > > avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle > 2.49 0.00 1.99 22.39 73.13 > > Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s > avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util > ida/c0d0 0.00 35.64 14.85 3.96 182.18 1148.51 91.09 574.26 > 70.74 3.89 16.32 8.68 16.34 > ida/c0d1 0.00 58.42 36.63 10.89 435.64 570.30 217.82 285.15 > 21.17 0.81 16.56 6.98 33.17 > Um with names like 'ida/c0d1' would that be a RAID array? That would kind of explain higher IO as the RAID duplicated each store write. Amos