Slow performance after a few days of use

[JonMoore87]

btw... on the statistics page, what does "load" mean as CPU, memory and network statistics all seem the same as normal but "load" has pretty much doubled.

Thanks,
Jon

[symm]

check out the connection to eth2
it seems to keep dropping
try the cable or a different port on switch

Let us know what happens

[cphastings]

I had a similar problem on my production data network, turned out to be a bad switch. Like symm said, I would rule out other hardware issues.

[JonMoore87]

Hi Symm,

Eth2 is connected directly to a host server with a cross-over cable, as it happens this server is out of use at the moment and shut down, to further rule out problems with this connection I've disconnected the cable but performance is still bad.

Thanks,
Jon

[JonMoore87]

Just shut down the SAN and run a consistency check on the RAID and also memtest.
Both have come back clean...

I'll post on Monday with a performance update.

Cheers,
Jon

[symm]

I've seen some tweeks in other post for iscsi, have you tried those ?

it was something like this:
maxRecvDataSegmentLen=65536
MaxBurstLength=16776192
Maxxmitdatasegment=65536

I've also seen posts that states that the initiator and target needs to be set to the same value.

from what you have posted from dmesg, I would suspect a network issue.

[JonMoore87]

Each host server is connected to the SAN with a separate x-over connection which put me off the idea of a network problem.

Performance is good again now, the SAN has been back in production for 3 days and is running great. It seems that the RAID parity was corrupt, the consistency check has rectified this. I've scheduled one to run every weekend to avoid this happening again.

I still don't feel 100% secure that the SAN is ok so I'm going to keep a close eye on it I'll post back if I get any new info.


Thanks for all you help guys,

Jon