[aklug] Re: Reasonable average server load?

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On 06/24/2010 10:32 AM, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Christopher Howard wrote:
>
>> I tried this:
>>
>> [~]# iostat 900 4
>> Linux 2.6.28-10.40.intel.E1000E.BHsmp (box261.bluehost.com) 06/23/10
>
> <snip>
>
> Your iowait is unacceptably high, plus if you look at your blk_read/s you
> can see you're definitely shuffling some data around. Given your ratio of
> reads to writes I'd say you'd be better off with a RAID5 array than the
> single drives you have now.
>
> In short, it looks to me like you have a disk I/O bottleneck.
>
> --Arthur Corliss
> Live Free or Die
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Just to reiterate... this isn't actually my server or hardware we're
talking about. I'm just paying for web space and an ssh login through
bluehost.com.

But anyway, from what you told me: it looks like the problem isn't too
much CPU load, but basically disk throttling.

Well, I guess I could complain about that, and see where it gets me.

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Christopher Howard
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