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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To: david_list@boreham.org
Cc: carlos.reimer@opendb.com.br
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Bad iostat numbers
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:00:05 +1300
Message-ID: <456F9AB5.1070409@paradise.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456F9262.4080207@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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