Re: SSA vs SCSI - general IO troubleshooting
From: Chafik,Basim (basim.chafik_at_PLX.COM)
Date: 03/24/05
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:16:51 -0800 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
My Experience is SSA give better IO performance specially if the SSA adapter
make use of the FASTWrite cache
Basim Chafik
Senior Systems Analyst
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE)
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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick B. O'Brien [mailto:pobrien@DOIT.NV.GOV]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 12:02 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: SSA vs SCSI - general IO troubleshooting
I/O seems to be the bottleneck for me, mostly.
You might look at 5L's migratelp.
You'd first run lvmstat -e -v vg_name to find your hotspots.
The man for these looks good.
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark
Schlechte
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 8:46 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: SSA vs SCSI - general IO troubleshooting
I'm trying to figure out what kind of performance differences there are
between good ol SSA compared to some SCSI Ultra 320 disks or even if that is
my problem.
Server A is a 6-way 6F1 668MHZ, 8GB ram with a number of internal SSA disks
and 13 oracle databases.
The disk is a mix of some RAID5, and RAID1 over 2 adapters.
Server B is a 2-way 6C3 1.2GHZ, 2GB ram with 6 SCSI disks and 4 oracle
databases.
This disk is just JBOD using a single 6203 SCSI adapter.
Due to oracle licensing costs we are moving one of the databases off the 6F1
onto the 2-way 6C3.
Our testing indicates very high I/O rates on the SCSI disk and tasks take
way to long to complete.
I'm wondering where I should focus my effort on trying to aleviate the disk
I/O bottleneck.
Is it SSA vs SCSI, the adapter (cache on the SSA adapter), more memory,
should I look at vmtune settings, etc.
I did run filemon while testing was going on.
CPU utilization is 67.7%
Most active Segments (all page table entries)
Most Active Physical Volumes (all hdisks show util 1.00)
Lots of questions I know, just looking for any general comments on where
people would start first.
Mark
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