[gyropk]

Hello,

I have dedicated server running CentOS + MySQL server. I am using this server from last 3 years. It is quite a busy server and have a lot reads and writes (only MySQL activity). From last some days MySQL performance has been decreased. Today I ran the iostat command and got the below results. I do not know about these things, can someone guide me and tell me whether should I replace server/hard disk or not?

$ iostat -d -x 5 3
Linux 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp (server.com.com) 07/08/2008

Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 5.19 40.74 13.19 54.91 29.26 59.45 14.63 29.73 1.30 0.00 0.01 0.02 0.11
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3.69 0.00 58.12 37.98 0.00
sda2 0.34 0.75 0.40 0.45 5.88 9.69 2.94 4.84 18.26 0.00 1.77 0.37 0.03
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 18.13 0.00 22.68 6.48 0.00
sda4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda5 0.14 0.40 0.10 0.36 1.91 6.14 0.96 3.07 17.49 0.00 2.24 0.89 0.04
sda6 0.00 0.08 0.00 0.04 0.00 0.93 0.00 0.47 24.39 0.00 0.81 24.72 0.09
sda7 0.01 0.45 0.05 0.23 0.44 5.57 0.22 2.78 21.50 0.00 2.33 1.32 0.04
sda8 4.70 39.06 12.64 53.82 21.02 37.12 10.51 18.56 0.87 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.07
hda 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.06 0.00 70.35 0.00 24.95 3.56 0.00
hda1 0.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.12 0.00 0.06 0.00 70.36 0.00 24.95 3.56 0.00

Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 99.20 0.40 150.50 3.21 1999.20 1.60 999.60 13.27 2.17 14.36 6.59 99.40
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.80 0.00 0.40 0.00 9.62 0.00 4.81 24.00 0.01 30.00 30.00 1.20
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda5 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda7 0.00 1.20 0.00 0.40 0.00 12.83 0.00 6.41 32.00 0.01 20.00 20.00 0.80
sda8 0.00 97.19 0.40 149.70 3.21 1976.75 1.60 988.38 13.19 2.15 14.30 6.62 99.40
hda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
hda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util
sda 0.00 112.60 0.20 148.60 1.60 2123.20 0.80 1061.60 14.28 2.32 14.41 6.65 99.00
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda5 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda7 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
sda8 0.00 112.60 0.20 148.60 1.60 2123.20 0.80 1061.60 14.28 2.32 14.41 6.65 99.00
hda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
hda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00