Re: One of mirrored pair goes to 100% busy
Matt Raines wrote:
> Last night we had a problem on our p660-6H1 where one of the disks in
> our mirrored pair of internal scsi disks went to 100% busy and but
> iostat did not show any reads or writes. As a result the server was
> unusable until we rebooted it which did in fact fix the problem. This
> particular server is 4.3.3 and has 6 cpus and 8 gbs of ram running
> oracle 8i.
>
> Anyone else seen anything similar to this before on any scsi based
> system?
>
> TIA,
>
> Matt
Did the errpt show anything?
I remember a while back that when one of my disks in a mirrored pair,
internal to the server, went awry, the CPU usage increased dramatically.
Not sure of the disk percentage though.
You state that the server was unusable, but you could still run commands
with no problems, correct?
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