Metadata in zope / binary data on FS, was Re: [ZODB-Dev] __del__ with Persistent objects

[Paul Winkler]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:48:39PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
>   When I analysed the problem I recognized that the file
>   was uploaded but it took 11 minutes. During this time
>   the processors IO wait was between 50 and 90 percent.


>   The Zope worker process started to see the request only
>   after about 9 minutes.
> 
>   Our system administrator thinks the (old and cheap) disk
>   subsystem is to blame.
 
sorry if this is OT, but how do you measure IO wait?
I'd like to find out if the same is true on our
not-so-old SCSI disks.

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