Re: Bad iostat numbers - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Mark Kirkwood
Subject Re: Bad iostat numbers
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Msg-id 456F9AB5.1070409@paradise.net.nz
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In response to Re: Bad iostat numbers  (David Boreham <david_list@boreham.org>)
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David Boreham wrote:

>
> These number look a bit strange. I am wondering if there is a hardware
> problem on one of the drives
> or on the controller. Check in syslog for messages about disk timeouts
> etc. 100% util but 6 writes/s
> is just wrong (unless the drive is a 1980's vintage floppy).
>

Agreed - good call, I was misreading the wkB/s as wMB/s...

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