On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Vanush "Misha" Paturyan wrote: > What about block device activity (-d option)?
Looks like sar isn't configured for this at the minute, I'll see if I can sort that out. > Any noticeable difference in average size of the requests or I/O wait time > between normal and NFS writes? Also, stalls only happened during NFS writes > maybe it's not a storage issue but a network card/driver issue (locking up > kernel on a high network traffic?) Perhaps. I'm currently running with the bnx2 driver for: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) This would be a different chipset to my other machines (typically they're Intel e1000). > This is more of a brainstorm session suggestions than actual advice > how to fix problems though. Seriously, I'm open to all suggestions ;) jh _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
