I/O response time

From: Martins, Sandro <smartins_at_us.lhsgroup.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:46:53 -0400

I have the following configuration:

* 2 Alpha servers 8400 in cluster, with host adapter KZPSA (20 m/s)
* 2 storage array ESA10000 HSZ70 (40 m/s)
* using mirror via LSM between two diferent ESA10000

Most part of the time, my I/O request time is in 40.0 ms, what I consider a
big time.

How can I improve my I/O performance?

1) Change my host adapter for one with 40 m/s ?
2) take away the LSM mirror ?

Other administrador told me that most of the I/O time is spent in disk seek
and LSM mirror. In that case, change the host adapter won't improve the
performance.

Is there any white paper that describe more about DEC I/O performance issue
when using ESA10000 and LSM mirror?

Thanks,


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