Disk I/O is high

  • When I run sp_who2, the disk I/O value is 157369 for msde. Does it mean the Disk I/O is high? How to deal with it?

  • That value is cumlative so may or may not be. If you just restarted your server it is, if has been several months then no. Use the Page Faults in Task Manger or PerfMon instead.

  • Page Faults is the counter for Memory. I've checked the memory usage, it is OK.

  • Hi there

    I like to use the read and write queue length counters for each array (divide my disks in the array) when measuring IO, run this for some time though to get a realistic set of figures.

    Cheers

    Ck

    Chris Kempster

    http://www.chriskempster.com

    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"


    Chris Kempster
    www.chriskempster.com
    Author of "SQL Server Backup, Recovery & Troubleshooting"
    Author of "SQL Server 2k for the Oracle DBA"

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    Page Faults is the counter for Memory. I've checked the memory usage, it is OK.


    High page faults can point to a lot of swap file usage and thus higher HD IO.

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