I come here for advice.
Here's my situation. I am renting a dedicated OVH server, to be precise this one: http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/eg_best_of.xml
Specs:
-1Gbit
-24GB RAM
-Intel Xeon W3520 4x2(HT)x2.66+ GHz CPU
-2x 2TB - SATA2 in soft RAID 0
I share this server with two others, so we're with three total on this machine. We're each running 50+ torrents, each person running an instance of rtorrent. OS is Ubuntu, nothing major changed in configuration from default.
The problem we're having is Disk I/O. If we all have our rtorrent clients running with 50+ torrents, the Disk I/O reaches 99.99% making the server unusable slow. If however 1 person runs a single well seeded torrent on the server, it will get 60MB/s download speed, which is of course very good.
So when the Disk I/O goes 100% and unusable for everyone, the CPU is barely running and RAM is only using 2GB out of 24GB.
What I'm basically asking is, is there a way for me to improve the Disk I/O performance on this server?
We have been looking at a bigger server, this one: http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/mg_best_of.xml but of course we don't want the same issues as we already have... this one does have SSD's as an addition though to the HDD's.
I hope someone could give advice.. thanks!!
Here's my situation. I am renting a dedicated OVH server, to be precise this one: http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/eg_best_of.xml
Specs:
-1Gbit
-24GB RAM
-Intel Xeon W3520 4x2(HT)x2.66+ GHz CPU
-2x 2TB - SATA2 in soft RAID 0
I share this server with two others, so we're with three total on this machine. We're each running 50+ torrents, each person running an instance of rtorrent. OS is Ubuntu, nothing major changed in configuration from default.
The problem we're having is Disk I/O. If we all have our rtorrent clients running with 50+ torrents, the Disk I/O reaches 99.99% making the server unusable slow. If however 1 person runs a single well seeded torrent on the server, it will get 60MB/s download speed, which is of course very good.
So when the Disk I/O goes 100% and unusable for everyone, the CPU is barely running and RAM is only using 2GB out of 24GB.
What I'm basically asking is, is there a way for me to improve the Disk I/O performance on this server?
We have been looking at a bigger server, this one: http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/mg_best_of.xml but of course we don't want the same issues as we already have... this one does have SSD's as an addition though to the HDD's.
I hope someone could give advice.. thanks!!