[Samba] Samba performance issues

John Coston jcoston at u.washington.edu
Tue Sep 24 21:40:01 GMT 2002


Sorry for the confusion - if I run "iostat" I get this:
[root at foo root]# iostat
Linux 2.4.18-3 (foo)       09/24/2002

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           16.79    0.00   26.39   56.82

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0           11.80         2.24       184.95     541354   44609586
dev8-1           11.80         1.67       184.95     403090   44609586

if I run iostat 1 it loops every second, so the results (for the first 
16 seconds) are:
[root at foo root]# iostat 1 16
Linux 2.4.18-3 (foo)       09/24/2002

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           16.79    0.00   26.40   56.80

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0           11.80         2.24       184.91     541354   44615082
dev8-1           11.80         1.67       184.91     403090   44615082

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           31.00    0.00   69.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           37.00    0.00   63.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           26.00    0.00   74.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           40.95    0.00   59.05    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           32.00    0.00   68.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            4.00         0.00       136.00          0        136
dev8-1            4.00         0.00       136.00          0        136

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           40.00    0.00   60.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           38.00    0.00   62.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           42.34    0.00   57.66    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0           11.71         0.00       165.77          0        184
dev8-1           11.71         0.00       165.77          0        184

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           34.07    0.00   65.93    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           36.00    0.00   64.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            6.00         0.00       104.00          0        104
dev8-1            6.00         0.00       104.00          0        104

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           37.00    0.00   63.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           42.00    0.00   58.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           36.00    0.00   64.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           41.00    0.00   59.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0
dev8-1            0.00         0.00         0.00          0          0

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           41.00    0.00   59.00    0.00

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
dev8-0            9.00         0.00       128.00          0        128
dev8-1            9.00         0.00       128.00          0        128

Is that enough or should I post more?  iostat -V reports sysstat 
version 4.0.3

thanks


On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 02:30  PM, Martin MOKREJŠ wrote:

> So where is the true "iostat 1" output? ;)
>
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