HIGH NFS LOAD AVERAGE

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dhatri
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HIGH NFS LOAD AVERAGE

Post by dhatri » 2016/02/03 08:10:40

Hello sir,

on the nfs server i am getting high load average of 150
io wait 78%wa
i am using async mode in /etc/exports
plz suggest some solution

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TrevorH
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Re: HIGH NFS LOAD AVERAGE

Post by TrevorH » 2016/02/03 12:41:14

Get a better i/o subsystem! With 78% io wait, it's obvious that you cannot get data on/off the disks quickly enough and that's causing everything to wait.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
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