I have XenServer 6.2 (updates applied XS62E001, XS62E002, XS62E004, XS62E005, XS62E007, XS62E008, XS62E009, XS62E010, XS62E011, XS62E012, XS62E013, XS62E014, XS62ESP1, XS62ESP1002) running a year in the HP ProLiant 380p g8 hardware.
Today it was slow, so I looked for the problem and found this:
iostat -xm
Linux 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.8.0.847.170785xen (XXXXXXXX) 10/02/2015
avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
0.29 0.00 0.42 0.05 0.90 98.33
Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rMB/s wMB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 36.90 1.14 82.64 128.20 2.34 2.46 46.68 0.73 3.45 2.66 56.10
sda1 36.56 1.13 0.72 0.61 0.09 0.01 141.57 0.01 5.68 1.81 0.24
sda2 0.03 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 9.02 0.00 0.44 0.40 0.00
sda3 0.18 0.00 81.89 127.59 2.26 2.46 46.08 0.72 3.44 2.67 55.97
sdb 7.00 0.00 2.29 0.18 0.09 0.00 73.50 0.01 3.56 1.84 0.46
dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.90 0.00 2.00 0.50 0.00
dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 20.90 0.00 2.50 1.00 0.00
dm-5 0.00 0.00 0.03 1.33 0.00 0.01 15.58 0.00 2.02 0.90 0.12
dm-6 0.00 0.00 0.17 0.00 0.00 0.00 53.24 0.00 6.30 4.18 0.07
dm-7 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.00 0.00 23.01 0.00 8.35 7.05 0.03
dm-8 0.00 0.00 0.15 0.00 0.00 0.00 35.67 0.00 4.23 3.18 0.05
tdd 0.00 0.85 0.39 1.38 0.01 0.01 20.50 0.01 3.46 1.42 0.25
what might be causing this excessive traffic?
Sorry my english! :(