Disk: Problem I/O Issues

• Disk I/O Imbalance

• Hardware

• Configuration issues

• Disk and File Fragmentation

• File system choices and configuration (default values in JFS favor data integrity).

• Database inefficiencies

• Buffer cache configuration and use

  • not enough causes additional I/O
  • too much and users memory storage suffers

• Stripping can become fragmentation.

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