On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 19:44, Rus Foster wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I seem to have a strange problem. I have a server which is showing a
> > load average of around 1 but cpu usage of 0.6% over two cpus.
>
> This would imply I/O wait for me. What sort of disks does it have?
Thats what I thought but this same machine has handles twice the load at
just 0.16 load average. Also, its running off 2 scsi disks which are
mirrored.
> Run vmstat 1 for a few minutes and post it here
I have attached the output of vmstat. The load average of the machine
was around 1 throughout. Please let me know if you want me to add a
longer vmstat run.
Best wishes,
Shri
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