[Aide] AIDE performance problems

[David Duccini]

I don't think it is multi-threaded ?

Or not so by default

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 5, 2015, at 16:11, Paul Hessels <paul at hessels.ca> wrote:
> 
> I have a rather large dataset that I am running AIDE against. I am running AIDE on my backup server that has a bunch of systems backups on it.  The server in question has about 5TB of data and about 200 million files.
> 
> Currently its taking about 27 hours to run.  The system is 15 drives in raid0 with XFS.
> 
> Oddly, the bottle neck doesn't seem to be disk.  iostat lists it as only 25% util.  Simple dd tests suggest that percentage is right for both throughput and iops.
> 
> The CPU doesn't seem to be the bottleneck.  Its about 65% idle most of the time.  The process seems to be sitting in the 'D' state most of the time.
> 
> The number of interrupts seems reasonable...
> 
> I don't know what to do next.  I need this to run in 20 hours or less.
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