help with interpretation of results

  • I have been checking my disk i/o and ran sp_blitz script which identified 'slow storage writes on drive S. The link from this output led me to run the following query to check things on a more granular level

    SELECT a.io_stall, a.io_stall_read_ms, a.io_stall_write_ms, a.num_of_reads,

    a.num_of_writes,

    --a.sample_ms, a.num_of_bytes_read, a.num_of_bytes_written, a.io_stall_write_ms,

    ( ( a.size_on_disk_bytes / 1024 ) / 1024.0 ) AS size_on_disk_mb,

    db_name(a.database_id) AS dbname,

    b.name, a.file_id,

    db_file_type = CASE

    WHEN a.file_id = 2 THEN 'Log'

    ELSE 'Data'

    END,

    UPPER(SUBSTRING(b.physical_name, 1, 2)) AS disk_location

    FROM sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats (NULL, NULL) a

    JOIN sys.master_files b ON a.file_id = b.file_id

    AND a.database_id = b.database_id

    ORDER BY a.io_stall DESC

    I have edited the ouput to show the key findings. Can somebody please advise if it looks like I have a problem here ? I have had to attach the output into an excel spread sheet as when i try and post the results using the tags opposite it just makes them unreadable. Please if anybody can advise on how I post the result set from my query I will gladly resubmit this

  • Hi,

    if you are analyzing IO sub system latency then go through below blog post.

    http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/how-to-examine-io-subsystem-latencies-from-within-sql-server



    Praveen D'sa
    MCITP - Database Administrator 2008
    http://sqlerrors.wordpress.com

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