High IO usage on Database server
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If "iotop" shows that most resources are used by jbd2/md2-8 and not by mysql service,
try to add:
innodb_flush_method=O_DSYNC
to my.cnf [mysqld] section and restart mysql service.
NOTE: already in the default installation on new servers.
Source: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/optimizing-innodb-diskio.html