Questions tagged [io]
IO (or I/O) is an abbreviation for input/output, most commonly referring to disk input/output.
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Weekly RAID check affecting my system - any way to mitigate?
I recently got my webhost (Hetzner) to add a paid of 16TB SATA drives to my webserver. Currently using 2.5TB of them. They're RAID 1 mirrored.
I also have two 4TB nVME drives with 700GB currently on ...
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Does my swapping server with ~80GB available RAM need even more?
I'm administering a Debian Linux x86_64 server with 125GB RAM, a 10GB swap partition and a swappiness value of 60.
A free -gw output prints:
total used free shared ...
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Centos stream 9 local console login input shown as squares
I'm after a fresh centos stream 9 install as minimal install, with only English keyboard and only root user.
After installing, I rebooted and got to the login screen. Trying to type "root" ...
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Problems after trying nohup rsync
I tried to run some rsync with nohup, which I couldnt get to run properly. I tried to delete the nohup.out file which it created but it seems everything in the directory I was working in is hanging ...
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High I/O wait in apache tomcat server
Facing high I/O wait in apache tomcat server when the load increases.
Suspecting disk I/O is less when tomcat is running however. disk IO seems drops drastically when tomcat is running along with the ...
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Couchdb 3.1.1 increases disk latency gradually over weeks
I've been dealing with this issue for weeks now.
I have the followin scenario:
couchdb2.3.1-A <===> couchdb2.3.1-B <===> couchdb3.1.1-A <===> couchdb3.1.1-B
where <===> ...
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How to toubleshoot poor IO performance on Windows Server
I am experiencing poor write performance on my Windows Server 20H2 machine (ESXI 7.02). Following symptoms are observed on a docker build: Each RUN command executes successfully, though takes ~10 ...
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Testing zpool IO performance
To test the write speed of a 2.5 inch SATA3 spinning hard drive (some old Seagate one) installed in my TrueNAS system I used dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/pool/test.dd bs=1024 count=1m (found this in ...
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How to measure/profile IO pattern of application on Windows?
I need to determine IO characteristics of some new application on Windows Server - so called I/O pattern.
What is the average size of blocks that application reads/writes to disks.
How random is it - ...
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Dmesg is full of I/O errors on Ubuntu 18.04 VM, physical disks and host are fine
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine on a Windows Server 2016 host (Dell PowerEdge R530, Intel Xeon E5-2620 @ 2.1GHz, 96GB RAM), running in VirtualBox 6.1.10. The host system has 2x2TB HDDs in RAID ...
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Simulate some process IO with fio or other tool
Is there any way to track a specific process and get stats for disk IO such as queue depth, total reading/writing threads, percent of reads/writes and so on?
The main goal is to use all that ...
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Interpreting SMART Logs of Newly Installed NVMe RAID0 Crashing Everyday
An Ubuntu 20.04 system has been stable for a year until a 2nd and 3rd NVMe drive is installed on the motherboard to form a 2x1TB RAID0 array. Ever since then, there is huge amount of IO load on this ...
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Getting high read await in Zabbix monitoring, is this a common behavior for RAID5 disk array?
We are running a Oracle 11.2 DB on Redhat 6.8, and disk array is configured as RAID5, which is using a Lenovo 730i RAID adapter.
I checked RAID policy and found that "Read Ahead Always" and &...
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kvm virtualization, slow io in windows guest (with virtio drivers) on ubuntu host and HP 360 Server with P440 RAID controller
Problem: Very slow IO in Windows Guest vs Host
Hardware: HP 360 G9, 2 x 10 cores Xeon CPU, 128GB Ram, 4 x 4TB SAS HDD, Raid 10, P440 Controller (with 2GB cache and battery)
Host: Ubuntu 20.04 Server, ...
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disk read io very high, but no process perform io read
We have experienced a very strange problem.
The load of the server machine is very high due to high disk read io. But the processes running on this server do not perform any disk read operation. We ...
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About IOPS of a RAID5 disk array without cache
we are using a 530-8i RAID adapter,which is none-cache supported, on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR590 server.And we have 4 HDD(600GB/10K RPM/SAS) in the array.
I read an article about calculating the disk/...
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It is possible that a process can not link a file, but I can with sudo for the same user?
I am working with Dovecot 2.3.4.1 and EncFS (encfs version 1.9.5) encrypted mailboxes on Debian 10 (no SELinux)
Basic setup is:
EncFS mounted with
encfs --public /var/encrypted-mail /var/decrypted-...
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Access disk io data in linux without tools like iotop/iostat to find processes or files with IO
We have regularly high load average. With the help of a zabbix agent, I could narrow it down to be mainly because of cpu iowait (and lastly disk io). I am not allowed to install any additional ...
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ZFS raidz3 on proxmox having IO issues
I'm running Proxmox 6.2-11 with 256GB ECC RAM and the following raidz3 pool:
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
scan: scrub repaired 0B in 0 days 15:25:14 with 0 errors on Sun Jan 10 15:49:29 2021
config:
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High %wa from top command while runing PyTorch
Everything was fine yesterday, but I noticed high dataloading time this morning. How do I go about trying to figure out how to fix this?
top:
process state:
iotop:
iostat:
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Does add more memory RAM decrease I/O wait?
My server is Ubuntu KVM and has 2 cores, 4GB RAM, and I use HDD, at moment I can't swap HDD to SSD.
I found this answear (https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/463819/351968) saying that adding more memory ...
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SSD I/O slows down system
My HDD was getting full, so I added a new SSD and tried moving files to it. For some reason, this bogs down the whole system to the point where it's not usable. This never happened with HDDs when ...
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Looking for a NBD C/S for windows (Network Block Device) [closed]
Where can I find a NBD Server (and also a Client)
that I can use in windows 10?
(preferably FOSS source code for inspect/change/compile/...)
Been looking for a while on the internet
and seems that no ...
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Is RAID 6 a good choice regarding performance on server used for computation?
We are operating a server for doing computations with large data sets (100GB - 5TB) for a small group of researchers (10-20 people). At the moment we are running 4x8TB spinning drives in a RAID 6 ...
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Fio brandswitch measure
In disk benchmarking tool fio there is statistics for brandswitch
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
READ: bw=20.9MiB/s (21.9MB/s), 10.4MiB/s-10.8MiB/s (10.9MB/s-11.3MB/s), io=64.0MiB (67.1MB), run=...
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MYSQL vs. InnoDB [closed]
mysqltuner output.
-------- Storage Engine Statistics -----------------------------------------------------------------
[--] Status: +ARCHIVE +BLACKHOLE +CSV -FEDERATED +InnoDB +MEMORY +MRG_MYISAM +...
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disk I/O latency spikes (contains log files from amplify)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server, disk is ssd. Application stack is: mongodb, node, nignx and some python.
Server is up 1 month and already had 3 OS disk fails where Ubuntu would go in read only mode. After ...
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What are the best practices for device-mapper multipath?
Background: We are setting up the new storage for an HPC Compute cluster for applied statistics, bioinformatics, and genomics. Contrary to our expectations, an active-active configuration did not ...
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Use F2FS on RAID0 within HDD?
My server contains 128 monitors and that caused many random write IO be submitted. If I use SSD, many writes will make it broken soon.
I read some articles about F2FS and know it works better on flash ...
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Low performance on file copy operations due large idle times (rsync, cp, ..)
I'm currently copying large directory tree from an external HDD to to internal storage of my server. The performance of the copy operation is basically quite good, i.e. 35MB/s with the external HDD ...
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Mysterious, intermittent Read I/O on Ubuntu 18.04 based EC2 server - iotop shows no disk reads
I have an EC2 server based on Ubuntu 18.04. With CloudWatch detailed monitoring enabled I'm seeing spikes of Disk Read Operations that last less than 1 minute (shown as 1-minute spikes on the graph) ...
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PHP high I/O after a DDoS attack
I've had a large scale DDoS attack on my website.
After I've enabled captcha challenge through CloudFlare and the attack stopped, PHP's I/O was still loaded at 99%, and the website was working very ...
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How does avgqu-sz size in iostat output relate to r_await and w_await?
Can someone explain what does avgqu-sz mean in the output of iostat? The manual page states like this.
avgqu-sz:
The average queue length of the requests that were issued to the device.
Can ...
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cat an file programs fail to acess a file but vi works properly (Debian)
I have getting some problems with my system after a bad reset via ctrl+alt+del. Since then errors related to ACPI and ata6 are reported. Trying to get a solution to this (in a savage way:I am n00b), I ...
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Huge IO performance degradation between proxmox ZFS host and WS19 VM
For more than a week, I am trying to determine the reason for the following IO performance degradation between proxmox host and a Windows Server 2019 VM(s).
I have to ask for your help guys because I'...
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Linus/ext4/nvme crashes during high io
During mvn compilation, I have random crashes.
The problem seems related to high IO and in kern.log, I can see things like:
kernel: [158430.895045] nvme nvme1: controller is down; will reset: CSTS=...
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High CPU Load and High I/O wait time : Mysql process
i am fairly new to the role and the technology. we have a Network server that receives the telemetry data from sensors and temeletry data is stored in MYSQL dabatase. we have a front end portal which ...
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nginx + php-fpm extremely high amounts of data written to disk
We are facing a problem with extremely high data writes to disk and huge amounts of traffic over loopback interface.
Environment:
Debian 10.3 (4.19.0.8) - virtualized in hyper-v
nginx/1.14.2
php-fpm ...
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RAID 50 vs RAID 10 for performance?
I have a server with 6 SSD's and a raid controller card that supports both RAID 10 and RAID 50 the plan is to use this as our Build server. It will be pulling in NPM Packages and many small code files,...
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jdb2 spike every hour for few seconds
I get IO hang up every hour on the exact same time on my Ubuntu 18.04 server.
iotop indicate that jbd2 spike to araong 30% around this time.
The hangup last only few seconds.
I started noticing this ...
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What is Split IO?
I'm trying to understand the meaning of split io/sec counter for physical disk in Windows Performance monitor and don't quite get the reason why the single IO operation might be split into several. ...
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Limitations to using many SSDs in computing server [closed]
This is a beginner's question:
We have a powerful computing server for roughly 10 users which will be increasingly used for data processing. In the past the main bottleneck was I/O.
I was wondering ...
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Total I/O cost of a process
I know that iotop lets me measure the disk bandwidth used by any or all processes in real time. iotop -a measures the accumulated disk bandwidth, which is closer to what I want.
However, when the ...
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Is it considered "safe" to run a task with high I/O on a server for 3 days straight, or would you add pauses in it?
I want to hash the contents of 4 million JPEG files taking up 32TB of a 48TB RAID6 partition in CentOS 7. It's a Hetzner SX131 10 x 6TB box.
Having run a test on 10,000 files I think the full job is ...
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nvme queue depth vs fio iodepth arg relation/explanation
This question is related to fio (flexible i/o tester) utility manages I/O queues for a NVME storage (SSD's in particular) whilst using libaio engine.
For testing i am using Ubuntu 14.04 and a ...
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How to accelerate metadata (getattr) requests on an NFS file server for fast locally-cached reads?
We have a storage server with a 12 disk RAID-6 pool of 100 TB. It is used by several client compute nodes via NFS, mostly running deep learning training (lots of images ~100 KB, loaded in random order)...
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Has anyone ever considered using a second partition on a disk in a ZFS mirror when that disk is known to be faster (SATA+NVMe)?
I was reading this question where I felt obligated to comment and poison the sanity of system administrators everywhere. Then I had an interesting idea.
Lets say that you have a laptop with a one ...
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GCP App Engine Flexible Environment Slow Disk I/O
Background/Overview:
We have a Python Web Application with three environments in two projects staging/dev and production. These are hosted in GCP using Google App Engine Flexible Environment, Cloud ...
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Dmesg full of I/O errors, smart ok, four disks affected
I'm working on a remote server (Dell Poweredge) that was a new install. It has four drives (2TB) and 2 SSD's (250 GB). One SSD contains the OS (RHEL7) and the four mechanical disks are eventually ...
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Can't scale write bandwidth on Linux with Intel Optanes
I have a computer with 3 Intel Optane drives and iotop shows that sequential write to each one separately achieves ~2.2 GB/sec. I suppose that simultaneous writing on all three would result in ~6.6 GB/...
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