Image Hosting

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Please re-run the vmstat as "vmstat 10 10". That should give a better 
glimpse at what the system is doing.

On 10/14/2010 04:26 PM, Indo Php wrote:
> Here's the output of "iostat -d 60 2"
> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
> sda 85.58 4947.94 2619.30 593632866 314252346
>
> Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
> sda 114.41 8395.93 339.01 503840 20344
>
> here's the output of vmstat
> procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
> r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
> 0 1 332 63136 628344 6085040 0 0 617 324 17 27 1 4 88 6
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de>
> *To:* nginx at nginx.org
> *Sent:* Thu, October 14, 2010 7:54:26 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Image Hosting
>
> Ah, sorry I somehow didn't catch that last line with the actual HW setup.
>
> If my math skills don't fail me (and they very well might) the traffic and
> image size data mean that you serve about 300 images per second.
> Can you post a few lines of vmstat output and perhaps the output of "iostat
> -d 60 2"?
>
> Also how are the hits distributed across the whole pool of images? Are
> these hits truly random or are some images hit significantly more often
> than others?
>
> More ram would obviously take some pressure off the disks if they are
> really the problem.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
>
> On 10/14/2010 02:26 PM, iptablez at yahoo.com <mailto:iptablez at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  > Actually the image size is arround 100KB each. The server is running in
> 250Mbps traffic.
>  > I already described the disk I'm using is scsi 15K RPM in raid 0
>  >
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>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Dennis Jacobfeuerborn<dennisml at conversis.de
> <mailto:dennisml at conversis.de>>
>  > Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:23:26
>  > To:<nginx at nginx.org <mailto:nginx at nginx.org>>
>  > Reply-To: nginx at nginx.org <mailto:nginx at nginx.org>
>  > Subject: Re: Image Hosting
>  >
>  > But if those 5,000 req/s each hit a different 1mb image then you need to
>  > read 5gb of data from you storage which if your storage is just a plain old
>  > sata disk is going to be a huge problem.
>  >
>  > Unfortunately Indo Php is not providing nearly enough information to give
>  > any sort of advice. If he is lucky then putting lots of ram in the machine
>  > for pagecache can help here if the cache hit ratio is good but if it is not
>  > then he probably has to distribute the I/O across more spindles and go for
>  > a raid with lots of disks.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Dennis
>  >
>  > On 10/14/2010 10:33 AM, SplitIce wrote:
>  >> Hmm well talking from experience nginx can serve upwards of 5,000 req/s for
>  >> static files if configured right. Ill leave this for Igor or someone more
>  >> expericed to reply to.
>  >>
>  >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Indo Php<iptablez at yahoo.com
> <mailto:iptablez at yahoo.com>
>  >> <mailto:iptablez at yahoo.com <mailto:iptablez at yahoo.com>>> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> i tried to use AIO, but it seems my server is getting slower
>  >>
>  >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  >> *From:* SplitIce<mat999 at gmail.com
> <mailto:mat999 at gmail.com><mailto:mat999 at gmail.com <mailto:mat999 at gmail.com>>>
>  >> *To:* nginx at nginx.org <mailto:nginx at nginx.org><mailto:nginx at nginx.org
> <mailto:nginx at nginx.org>>
>  >> *Sent:* Thu, October 14, 2010 2:47:55 PM
>  >> *Subject:* Re: Image Hosting
>  >>
>  >> Try any of these:
>  >> 1) Compile nginx with AIO support
>  >> 2) Try directio option
>  >> 3) Try sendfile option
>  >>
>  >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Indo Php<iptablez at yahoo.com
> <mailto:iptablez at yahoo.com>
>  >> <mailto:iptablez at yahoo.com <mailto:iptablez at yahoo.com>>> wrote:
>  >>
>  >> hi there,
>  >>
>  >> we have an image hosting, and of course we're using Nginx!
>  >>
>  >> Now on we're having problem with disk i/o. With 200GB of images.
>  >> Is there any recommendation for this matter? Nginx configuration or
>  >> Hardware/other software configuration?
>  >>
>  >> We already used Dual Quad Core 3Ghz, 8 GB RAM, 6x73GB 15k SCSI server
>  >>
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