[Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

[Mason Nakadomari]

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

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
sda               0.00         0.49         0.03    1086378      56968
sdb               3.21        28.50        41.68   62912714   91982864
dm-0              5.65        28.50        41.67   62907794   91978832
dm-1              0.00         0.00         0.00       3568       4032



On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Mason Nakadomari <nakadoma at hawaii.edu>wrote:

> 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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>>
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