[Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

[Mason Nakadomari]

Thank you for the response Richard. I just was beginning to wonder if this
problem was unique to me. Your experience gives me some confidence that
this can be fixed since that is kind of what I have been endeavoring to do.
We use a SAN, Fibre Channel. however we run the aide-server package which
ssh to the host and runs aide on the local server. Both are SAN on fibre
Channel. Ethernet is gigabit. I felt that it shouldn't take that long. I'll
run a iostat but I don't believe I should have io problems. I'll go ahead
and get that info.

I am running it as nohup aide.init hostname & would that make a difference?


On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Richard van den Berg <richard at vdberg.org>wrote:

>  On 08-09-13 09:30, Mason Nakadomari wrote:
>
> However the scans still take 3 to 4 days to complete and generate reports
> 143000 lines long. Is there anyway I can speed this up or is cutting down
> on files the only way.
>
>
> Aide is typically IO bound on modern systems. Such long run times indicate
> severe disk performance issues. Where is your data store? A NAS or SAN? You
> can monitor your IO using vmstat or iotop. Are there other processes doing
> a lot of IO on this system?
>
> On my system I scan about 20GB of data in 104388 files and aide always
> finishes in a few hours. The data is on a SAN.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Richard
>
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