Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-10 17:40:43
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait
From: "Lukasz Szybalski" <szybalski AT gmail DOT com>
To: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:38:58 -0600
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:06 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski AT gmail DOT 
> com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> My bacula server is pretty busy, and I notice that at times the IOwait
>> reaches 40%.
>>
>> Currently I use: top, free, iostat -k 5 /dev/md5
>>
>> Are there any tools/commands on linux that can tell me what is the
>> status of Input output. I would like to know:
>> - How much IO are my hard drives capable of?
>> - What is an average? max? min?
>> - Is IO a bottleneck on my performance?
>> - Monitoring tool names and exact commands would be appriciated.
>>
>> Sorry to bring these questions here but I don't know any other list
>> that would have the technical people that have experience and are
>> knowledgeable on the topic.
>>
>
> Is this a software raid 5 or 6?

Software raid5 using mdadm

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