Just to give an extreme example from another time, another galaxy. I had a 
z9-BC (I told you, long ago) with TSM Linux VM (Tivoli Storage Manager, the 
backup thingy) that moved data for replication purposes from a TS3500 to a 
TS3310 with six tape pairs. Reached almost 1 GB/s with very little CPU going 
on. You should have seen the wait on that. And yes, I used Barton's tooling to 
look at it together with Rob.

best regards,
Pieter Harder 
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Van: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> namens Mark Post 
<[email protected]>
Verzonden: maandag 24 april 2017 20:36
Aan: [email protected]
Onderwerp: Re: Diagnose high wait

>>> On 4/24/2017 at 04:34 AM, Christer Solskogen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> While we're at talking about high steal% , could somebody share some
> insights about how to diagnose high wait%?

On top of what Barton said, a high percent wait time can show up if a Linux 
system is using very little CPU time, but one or more tasks are doing a lot of 
I/O.  If the system is using a lot of CPU, then it's more likely what Barton is 
talking about.


Mark Post

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