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Conference decwet::advfs_support

Title:AdvFS Support/Info/Questions Notefile
Notice:note 187 is Freq Asked Questions;note 7 is support policy
Moderator:DECWET::DADDAMIO
Created:Wed Jun 02 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1077
Total number of notes:4417

1036.0. "Advfs for news service question" by HGOVC::EDMONDLEUNG () Mon Apr 07 1997 11:57

    Hi,
    
    One of our customers is using Advfs for the news service. When the news
    user is getting more and more (around 400), they have encountered the 
    performance problem. The response time for posting the news is getting
    slower and slower. This customer usually runs the defragmentation
    during non-peak hour and the degragmentation process can be completed
    around 3 to 4 hours. However, up to the current moment, the
    defragmentation process cannot be completed within 4 hours and most
    likely the customer needs to kill it manually since this process causes
    the performance further degraded. 
    
    Attached pls find the defragmenetation log file for the news domain.
    Can someone provide any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this problem
    and what is the information we need to collect in order to sole this
    problem? What'll be the appropriate commands we can use to collect the
    useful data?
    
    Thanks and rgds,
    Edmond
    
    =======================================================================
    Subject: Defragmentation log
    
    Tue Apr  1 11:30:47 HKT 1997
    defragment: Defragmenting domain 'news_domain'
    
    Pass 1; Clearing
      Volume 1: area at block  9280416 (20847712 blocks): 48% full
    ./defragment.sh: 22241 Killed
    Tue Apr  1 18:10:56 HKT 1997
    Wed Apr  2 09:47:08 HKT 1997
    defragment: Defragmenting domain 'news_domain'
    
    Pass 1; Clearing
      Volume 1: area at block  1856752 (21278416 blocks): 26% full
      Domain data as of the start of this pass:
        Extents:                 130883
        Files w/extents:          94295
        Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.39
        Aggregate I/O perf:         91%
        Free space fragments:     53027
                         <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
          Free space:      8%     20%     28%     44%
          Fragments:    42671    8823    1385     148
    
    Filling
    defragment.sh: 13734 Killed
    Wed Apr  2 18:23:19 HKT 1997
    Thu Apr  3 09:41:54 HKT 1997
    defragment: Defragmenting domain 'news_domain'
    
    Pass 1; Clearing
      Volume 1: area at block  6145696 (21590480 blocks): 43% full
      Domain data as of the start of this pass:
        Extents:                  98620
        Files w/extents:          95093
        Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.04
        Aggregate I/O perf:         99%
        Free space fragments:     45515
                         <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
          Free space:      7%     28%     25%     40%
          Fragments:    31516   12457    1412     130
    
    Filling
    ./defragment.sh: 8671 Killed
    Thu Apr  3 17:37:08 HKT 1997
    Fri Apr  4 10:47:13 HKT 1997
    defragment: Defragmenting domain 'news_domain'
    
    Pass 1; Clearing
      Volume 1: area at block 32985952 ( 8890400 blocks): 23% full
      Domain data as of the start of this pass:
        Extents:                  99118
        Files w/extents:          96035
        Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.03
        Aggregate I/O perf:         99%
        Free space fragments:     48824
                         <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
          Free space:      8%     32%     13%     47%
          Fragments:    32824   15136     736     128
    
    Filling
      Current domain data:
        Extents:                  97863
        Files w/extents:          97246
        Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.01
        Aggregate I/O perf:        100%
        Free space fragments:     29685
                         <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
          Free space:      4%     16%     13%     67%
          Fragments:    21675    7206     658     146
    
    defragment: Defragmented domain 'news_domain'
    Fri Apr  4 14:47:09 HKT 1997
    sh: defragment: cannot open
    Fri Apr  4 14:49:38 HKT 1997
    defragment: Defragmenting domain 'news_domain'
    
    Pass 1; Clearing
      Volume 1: area at block  1927776 (21296960 blocks): 22% full
      Domain data as of the start of this pass:
        Extents:                  98122
        Files w/extents:          97461
        Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.01
        Aggregate I/O perf:        100%
        Free space fragments:     29925
                         <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
          Free space:      4%     16%     13%     66%
          Fragments:    21785    7336     658     146
    
    Filling
    ./defragment.sh: 12972 Killed
    Fri Apr  4 19:21:54 HKT 1997
    Sat Apr  5 10:22:23 HKT 1997
    defragment: Defragmenting domain 'news_domain'
    
    Pass 1; Clearing
      Volume 1: area at block 12047312 (20839904 blocks): 30% full
      Domain data as of the start of this pass:
        Extents:                 102921
        Files w/extents:         101372
        Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.02
        Aggregate I/O perf:        100%
        Free space fragments:     35190
                         <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
    
          Free space:      5%     24%      9%     63%
          Fragments:    24838    9680     549     123
    
    Filling
      Current domain data:
        Extents:                 103241
        Files w/extents:         102899
        Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.00
        Aggregate I/O perf:        100%
        Free space fragments:     21038
                         <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
          Free space:      2%      2%     15%     80%
          Fragments:    19483     823     530     202
    
    defragment: Defragmented domain 'news_domain'
    Sat Apr  5 21:12:11 HKT 1997
    Sun Apr  6 10:38:38 HKT 1997
    defragment: Defragmenting domain 'news_domain'
    
    Pass 1; Clearing
      Volume 1: area at block 12309184 (20611232 blocks): 58% full
      Domain data as of the start of this pass:
        Extents:                 104709
        Files w/extents:         102405
        Avg exts per file w/exts:  1.02
        Aggregate I/O perf:         99%
        Free space fragments:     33822
                         <100K     <1M    <10M    >10M
          Free space:      6%     10%     14%     70%
          Fragments:    27891    5260     496     175
    
    Filling
    ./defragment.sh: 22038 Killed
    Sun Apr  6 19:58:29 HKT 1997
    Mon Apr  7 10:12:59 HKT 1997
    defragment: Defragmenting domain 'news_domain'
    
    Pass 1; Clearing
      Volume 1: area at block  3807696 (20217488 blocks): 51% full
    ./defragment.sh: 21588 Killed
    Mon Apr  7 12:25:26 HKT 1997
    
    
    
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1036.1XIRTLU::schottEric R. Schott USG Product ManagementMon Apr 07 1997 13:0117
Hi

  You might want to look at the disk performance data...
You may want a multi-volume domain (if it is not already) and you
may want to lsm stripe it across more drives to speed the performance.

You might run sys_check to see if there are other things on the
system to be watched?  

You did not mention what version, how much memory...etc...sys_check
will gather that

see

  http://www-unix.zk3.dec.com/tuning/tools/sys_check/sys_check.html