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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. It may be due to queueing, especially from file systems that send a batch of writes. Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. It may be due to queueing, especially from file systems that send a batch of writes. Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state.

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Poor Disk Performance

Brendan Gregg

From these outputs I try to determine if the problem is: - **The workload**: High-latency disk I/O is commonly caused by the workload applied. It may be due to queueing, especially from file systems that send a batch of writes. Rotational disks have extra latency from head seeks for random I/O, and spin ups from the idle state.