Isaac Clerencia
2007-May-31 00:55 UTC
[Ocfs2-users] Really high io wait times with OCFS2 in a mail server
Hi there. We have just setup a mail server with storage in a EMC Clariion SAN with fiberchannel connections. We're using two HP Proliant servers sharing the mail filesystem with OCFS2. The mail filesystem has several big directories having the biggest one over 7000 user directories. Some of the users have over 4000 messages, using Maildir as mail layout. We are experiencing really high IO wait times (up to 90% of CPU time sometimes) and sometimes several mail processes (POP and IMAP daemons) get stalled for several seconds (or up to a minute in the worst cases) waiting for disk IO. We're not sure if there is a way to fix this. Would adding an extra computer help? Would adding an extra fiberchannel card in the hosts and using multipath help? Any other idea? Best regards