[Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

Mason Nakadomari nakadoma at hawaii.edu
Sun Sep 8 15:40:01 EEST 2013


here is what my iostat looks on the local machine. Could it be network
related since I'm running the aide-server package.

[root at aid70 ~]# iostat -dx
Linux 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (aid70.pvt.hawaii.edu)      09/08/13
_x86_64_        (1 CPU)

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz
avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.49     0.03
196.52     0.00    4.06   2.38   0.00
sdb               0.01     2.43    0.43    2.78    28.51    41.68
21.88     0.01    1.95   1.32   0.42
dm-0              0.00     0.00    0.44    5.21    28.50    41.67
12.42     0.03    4.75   0.75   0.42
dm-1              0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
8.00     0.00    5.78   0.87   0.00



On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Mason Nakadomari <nakadoma at hawaii.edu>wrote:

> 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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