- Aug 21, 2002
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So, I have this server (based on redhat) that we're seeing low (write) throughput on. It has a RAID6 array with 24 Western Digital RE3 drives. Running iostat -x results seem to indicate that the array is saturated, with %util being almost consistently at 100%.
However, the await seems to average over 100ms while svctm is usually around 1.
Does this mean that the device isn't really saturated since the svctm isn't increasing?
However, the await seems to average over 100ms while svctm is usually around 1.
Does this mean that the device isn't really saturated since the svctm isn't increasing?