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Is that a normal iowait level for spinning disks?

AmitzAmitz Member
edited May 2014 in Help

Dear all,

I have moved a busy website from a SSD VPS (Xen) to a dedicated server with two 7.2k spinning disks in Raid-1. My munin graphs of the CPU load on the new server shows quite an amount of iowait:

I ran into other limits with the VPS, but I never had so much iowait there. As said, the VPS had SSDs in Raid-10.

Shall I consider this as normal? The site feels snappy, so no problem, but I would be interested anyway...

Thanks a lot for your input in advance!

Kind regards
-Amitz

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