# How to balance user load !!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\ **Created:** [May 2, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-balance-user-load/2661 "2013-05-02T02:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![systemali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@systemali](https://forums.percona.com/u/systemali)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-balance-user-load/2661/1 "2013-05-02T02:31:24Z")
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**Author:** ![gmouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@gmouse](https://forums.percona.com/u/gmouse)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-balance-user-load/2661/2 "2013-05-02T09:45:42Z")
It is hard to provide a single answer without knowing the storage engine, and without knowing whether the problem is reading or writing to the database. ---
**Author:** ![systemali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@systemali](https://forums.percona.com/u/systemali)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-balance-user-load/2661/3 "2013-05-02T21:12:03Z")
Appreciate your revert “gmouse” as always 🙂 Since i am a novice at it, Can you please let me know how can i find out if the server is having “Read OR Write” problems to the database ? Thank you once again !! ---
**Author:** ![gmouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@gmouse](https://forums.percona.com/u/gmouse)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 5:44am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-balance-user-load/2661/4 "2013-05-03T05:44:21Z")
If mutex contention or cpu power is not the problem, that will become clear from the disk utilization, as shown by e.g. iostat. ---
**Author:** ![systemali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@systemali](https://forums.percona.com/u/systemali)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2013, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-balance-user-load/2661/5 "2013-05-07T01:43:44Z")
Hello “gmouse” I have got the results from iostat, can you please comment on the status of the same :- > [@](#): > > root@rack02 ~ # iostat -d -x 1 3 > Linux 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 (rack02.cv.local) 05/07/2013 > > Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util > sda 0.23 39.07 3.08 11.65 128.31 776.37 61.39 0.05 3.41 0.79 1.17 > sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 9.81 0.00 2.41 2.36 0.00 > sda2 0.22 39.07 3.08 11.65 128.30 776.37 61.40 0.05 3.41 0.79 1.17 > sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 46.56 0.00 6.82 6.74 0.00 > > Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util > sda 0.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 8.00 8.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 > sda1 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 1.00 0.00 8.00 8.00 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 > > Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util > sda 0.00 5.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 104.00 13.00 0.01 0.88 0.88 0.70 > sda1 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 5.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 104.00 13.00 0.01 0.88 0.88 0.70 > sda3 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Thank you