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Today I get an alert mail from linode.com "Your Linode, Randy, has exceeded the notification threshold (1000) for disk io rate by averaging 1571.81 for the last 2 hours.".

Last time I get alert like that is several month ago, I keeping get alerts, but at the same time my website network traffic never grow. I try everything, but can not location the problem. Finally, I guess the growing log file size is the problem. I use cronolog cut log file, and problem resolved.

Now,I/O rate chart shows I/O rate is keeping growing too, how to I location problem? Is there anything can help me?

My server is Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS/apache/php/mysql at linode.com.

Tinyfool
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You can determine which process is thrashing your disk using the iotop package. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=876738

Also, you can change the I/O rate alert threshold in the Settings tab of the Linode web interface.

slillibri
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Try vmstat and see if there's much bi/bo. I thought it is caused by swap thrashing, due to the small physical memory of your Linode.

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1st，you may be find the problem , mysql or apache
using vmstat iostat

2nd, if problem from apache , you can using nginx ＋fastcgi to replace apache it is a light web server, better than apache

 if problem  from mysql  ，you can modify  my.cnf

3rd if problem from other app? please paste your log file

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    point is how to use vmstat or iostat find problem from what app? I just can see some global info, not info about a app. – Tinyfool Dec 07 '10 at 13:03