Ah ...
Did you try to stop mysql (if possible given your SLA, of course )?
Here's the weird thing. I've stopped just about everything. The one thing I cannot stop is FTP and NFS. Samba, syslog, mysql, postfix, cron have all been shut down temporarily with no effect.
NFS is not exporting the disk in question. FTP has several log files open. The culprit might be /var/log/wtmp as the other logs are relatively idle (only when users are actually transferring, which is relatively rate).
I rotated the wtmp file. The new one is less than 5k in size, so I think I can eliminate it. Watching "du -sh /var/log/proftpd" leads me to conclude that it is also not changing in size.
Any known subversive software that writes to disk a lot?
Hi All,
I am working on a Solaris machine. When i use a particular software to generate some files, the log shows around 0 to 3 secs for generating each file. But the same when i see on the disk it shows double the time difference between two file generation.
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Dear All,
We are using AIX 5.2 with IBM pseries servers.
I want to check disk io for a running process.
Please if anybody can help me.
Thanks.
Aqeel Anwar (1 Reply)
Hello ,
Well I have some /tmp files which are growing very quickly..Can anyone suggest me a way to find which process is logging into this file :confused: ?
Thanks very much in Advance!!
Mohammed (2 Replies)
Hi
We are running an IBM P570 with AIX and Unidata.
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The OS is SuSE Enterprise 11 and the system is HP WS460c G6 Blade with hardware disk array RAID 1 mirror. One disk was just replaced and the disk mirroring process is on its way. My question is how to follow up / monitor the disk mirroring process? I know hpacucli can do the job, but there... (0 Replies)
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I am using iostat and /proc/<pid>/status to determine the disk usage per process. I have a question regarding buffer cache. When I am reading a 10MB file, the counters I get show that <5MB of the file is read. Do the counters in iostat and /proc/<pid> reflect the amount of data that is... (2 Replies)
In Our Production server I/O was very high, I Recived mail that Disk I/O was high, is it possible how to find which process Used this much I/O ?
Iam Using Ubuntu server 12.04.
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Hello!
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ionice
ionice(1) General Commands Manual ionice(1)NAME
ionice - get/set program io scheduling class and priority
SYNOPSIS
ionice [[-c class] [-n classdata] [-t]] -p PID [PID]...
ionice [-c class] [-n classdata] [-t] COMMAND [ARG]...
DESCRIPTION
This program sets or gets the io scheduling class and priority for a program. If no arguments or just -p is given, ionice will query the
current io scheduling class and priority for that process.
As of this writing, a process can be in one of three scheduling classes:
Idle A program running with idle io priority will only get disk time when no other program has asked for disk io for a defined grace
period. The impact of idle io processes on normal system activity should be zero. This scheduling class does not take a priority
argument. Presently, this scheduling class is permitted for an ordinary user (since kernel 2.6.25).
Best effort
This is the effective scheduling class for any process that has not asked for a specific io priority. This class takes a priority
argument from 0-7, with lower number being higher priority. Programs running at the same best effort priority are served in a round-
robin fashion.
Note that before kernel 2.6.26 a process that has not asked for an io priority formally uses "none" as scheduling class, but the io
scheduler will treat such processes as if it were in the best effort class. The priority within the best effort class will be dynam-
ically derived from the cpu nice level of the process: io_priority = (cpu_nice + 20) / 5.
For kernels after 2.6.26 with CFQ io scheduler a process that has not asked for an io priority inherits CPU scheduling class. The
io priority is derived from the cpu nice level of the process (same as before kernel 2.6.26).
Real time
The RT scheduling class is given first access to the disk, regardless of what else is going on in the system. Thus the RT class
needs to be used with some care, as it can starve other processes. As with the best effort class, 8 priority levels are defined
denoting how big a time slice a given process will receive on each scheduling window. This scheduling class is not permitted for an
ordinary (i.e., non-root) user.
OPTIONS -c class
The scheduling class. 0 for none, 1 for real time, 2 for best-effort, 3 for idle.
-n classdata
The scheduling class data. This defines the class data, if the class accepts an argument. For real time and best-effort, 0-7 is
valid data.
-p pid Pass in process PID(s) to view or change already running processes. If this argument is not given, ionice will run the listed pro-
gram with the given parameters.
-t Ignore failure to set requested priority. If COMMAND or PID(s) is specified, run it even in case it was not possible to set desired
scheduling priority, what can happen due to insufficient privileges or old kernel version.
EXAMPLES
# ionice -c 3 -p 89
Sets process with PID 89 as an idle io process.
# ionice -c 2 -n 0 bash
Runs 'bash' as a best-effort program with highest priority.
# ionice -p 89 91
Prints the class and priority of the processes with PID 89 and 91.
NOTES
Linux supports io scheduling priorities and classes since 2.6.13 with the CFQ io scheduler.
AUTHORS
Jens Axboe <jens@axboe.dk>
AVAILABILITY
The ionice command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
ionice August 2005 ionice(1)