Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:49:51 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> To: Andrew Nelson <andrew__nelson@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is my load average so high? Message-ID: <20030212004951.GB26220@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <F58IVvLVKi3s1wsXZZT000000cd@hotmail.com> References: <F58IVvLVKi3s1wsXZZT000000cd@hotmail.com>
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While humming that old rock song Yackety Yacc - Dont Awk Back Andrew Nelson sang or SED something like this: > I've got a mail server which has started running > very slow. The load average cycles up and down, > sometimes hitting above 150.. It's not spam (I > always have a look at the maillog when this happens) > and the processes running on the system all add up > to a reasonably low CPU and MEM usage.. > There is nothing unusual in /var/log/messages > and i'm stumped.. It's on a RAID5 and the drives > are going like crazy.. > how can I find the cause of this disk i/o ? Try 'top' or 'vmstat' Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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