[gpfsug-discuss] High I/O wait times

Jonathan Buzzard jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk
Fri Jul 6 22:03:09 BST 2018


On 06/07/18 02:11, Buterbaugh, Kevin L wrote:

[SNIP]
> 
> The hardware setup is a vanilla 8 GB FC SAN.  Commodity hardware for
> the servers and storage.  We have two SAN “stacks” and all NSD
> servers and storage are connected to both stacks.  Linux multipathing
> handles path failures.  10 GbE out to the network.

You don't mention it, but have you investigated your FC fabric? Dodgy 
laser, bad photodiode or damaged fibre can cause havoc.

JAB.

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