Iostat shows that 'svctm' is increasing proportionally to 'await'.

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Issue

  • Iostat shows that 'svctm' is increasing proportionally to 'await'.
Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
mpathe            0.00 51803.00    1.00  430.00     4.00 220108.00  1021.40   143.78  338.08   2.32 100.00
mpathe            0.00 56896.00    0.00  424.00     0.00 217088.00  1024.00   144.87  340.30   2.36 100.00
mpathe            0.00 48895.00    0.00  416.00     0.00 212992.00  1024.00   142.41  350.05   2.40 100.00
mpathe            0.00 56896.00    0.00  424.00     0.00 217088.00  1024.00   138.99  323.44   2.36 100.10
mpathe            0.00 53617.00    0.00  430.00     0.00 216692.00  1007.87   143.46  331.03   2.33 100.00
mpathe            0.00 54864.00    1.00  426.00     4.00 218796.00  1024.82   141.27  332.48   2.34 100.00
mpathe            0.00 52044.00    1.00  422.00     4.00 215380.00  1018.36   142.10  333.22   2.36 100.00
mpathe            0.00 50572.00    0.00  400.00     0.00 204800.00  1024.00   145.59  359.29   2.50 100.00
mpathe            0.00 51295.00    0.00  408.00     0.00 208896.00  1024.00   143.96  358.56   2.45 100.00
mpathe            0.00 55385.00    2.00  424.00     8.00 217088.00  1019.23   138.83  327.49   2.35 100.10

Another io pattern that was seen was :

00:40:01     dev8-224      0.01      0.04      0.00      8.00      0.00     12.67     12.67      0.01
00:40:01     dev8-227      0.01      0.04      0.00      8.00      0.00     12.67     12.67      0.01

00:40:01     dev67-48      0.01      0.05      0.00      8.00      0.00     10.75     10.75      0.01
00:40:01     dev67-51      0.01      0.05      0.00      8.00      0.00     10.75     10.75      0.01

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • VxFS - Veritas File System
  • Sybase database

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