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NFS storage slow on Toolforge?
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • tools.yfdyh-bot@tools-bastion-13:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/testfile bs=500M count=1

What happens?:

524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 16.9742 s, 30.9 MB/s
or
524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 89.2577 s, 5.9 MB/s

This causes some tasks to slow down and also causes https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Running_Pywikibot_scripts_(advanced) pwb_venv.sh failed due to timeout.

ERROR: timed out 600 seconds waiting for job 'setup-venv' to complete:

What should have happened instead?:
Fast storage as usual.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Event Timeline

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I'll resolve as it seems it's not happening anymore, please create a new task linking here if you find happens again:

tools.wm-lol@tools-bastion-13:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/testfile bs=500M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 7.07184 s, 74.1 MB/s
tools.wm-lol@tools-bastion-13:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/testfile bs=500M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 4.46841 s, 117 MB/s
tools.wm-lol@tools-bastion-13:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/testfile bs=500M count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
524288000 bytes (524 MB, 500 MiB) copied, 5.1555 s, 102 MB/s