Hello,
One of our customers is using a R80.10 SMS in Amazon Cloud.
We are experiencing slowness while doing most of the operation tasks like: connecting to Smart Console takes more than a minute, moving between different pages inside Smart Console takes 5-10 seconds, loading a policy to display it takes 5-10 seconds, loading objects in Object Explore takes more than 10 seconds, etc.
The virtual machine has 32 GB of RAM, 8 CPUs and 100 GB disk space. See more in the attached file.
There are 11 gateways managed from that SMS and SMS is logging server as well.
I'm wondering if that slowness can be reduced.
Could you please advise how to approach this slowness investigation and if there are any tips or guide lines to check?
Thank you!
Adrian
Your processor and memory specs look good, so it is probably an issue with the performance of the disk path. While performing operations in the SmartConsole, run top. Do you see a lot of CPU time expended in "wa"? That means the CPU is blocked waiting for the disk path to respond. You can also look at this historically by just running sar with no options, "wa" will be labelled "iowait" in the sar output.
Also I assume that your 8 CPUs are actually 8 discrete CPUs and not 4 CPUs hyperthreaded as it is not currently recommended to enable hyperthreading on an SMS for performance reasons. May not matter or be relevant in AWS but I thought I'd throw it out there.
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