We've got problems

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
> nfs1:
>
> NFS1's IO load is just not right.  Something isn't behaving as it should
> and I'm just not sure whats going on there yet.  We need to do a full
> examination and trend of it.  This involves moving cvs1 to another
> location and involves moving releng2 to xen1 to help ease some load.
> Additionally we need to move kojipkgs1 to another location (probably xen1)
> and enable a proper caching for it.  We also need to finally get a valid
> backup of nfs1.  This still hasn't happened.  Its difficult to test
> because of the high load on the disks, backups take 4+ days.  lots of
> things can go wrong during that time.
>
>
> Tickets: #1061, #1074, #1075, #1076.
>

more background on this, I know releng and some others are working to do
fewer reads and writes to the nfs share.  Thats a valuable effort, but I'm
not convinced there's not something else going on there.  The read/write
speeds I've seen just are slower then I'd expect.

	-Mike