Really high disk i/o !!

[Richard Kearsley]

On 16/06/14 12:49, shahzaib shahzaib wrote:
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>  8MB/s w/r should not be issue for 12X3TB SATA HDD. Maybe i need to 
> tweak some nginx buffers or kernels in order to reduce the high io wait ?
>
if you have a high number of concurrent connections and/or use 
limit_rate, then expect hdd (sata or sas) to quickly run out of iops
tip from me: use nmon (linux) to see the real time status of your disks. 
If they are wrapped up in iowait then you need a faster seeking disk 
(e.g. ssd because sas won't give you a significant amount extra)
if only one of them is in iowait then it's probably a dead/dying disk