I see a lot of this in my logs from time to time and I was wondering if anybody could give me an idea of what to do to attempt to fix this problem?
Dec 23 15:24:59: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.642 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:24:59: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.301 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:25:02: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 2.133 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:25:48: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 4.009 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:25:50: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 4.537 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:25:51: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.173 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:26:47: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 2.694 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:26:47: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 2.694 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:26:52: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 3.434 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:26:54: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.227 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 15:27:02: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.470 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 16:51:40: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 3.030 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 16:51:53: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.482 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 16:51:53: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.482 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 16:51:55: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 1.324 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 16:51:58: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 2.263 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 16:52:08: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 3.519 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 16:52:56: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 2.070 seconds (ok)
Dec 23 16:52:59: vmx| SCSI0:0: Command WRITE(10) took 3.145 seconds (ok)
VMware Server:
Dell Poweredge 2850
Dual Xeon 2.8GHz
4GB RAM
3 x 146GB 10k RPM SCSI drives (RAID 5 configuration)
Red Hat Advanced Server 4
10 VMs on the machine, very under-utilized. Mostly departmental web servers with maybe 5 users each.
