On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:46 -0800, Edward Moon wrote: > > top - 09:51:20 up 4 days, 14:54, 1 user, load average: 4.99, 2.77, > 1.85 > > Tasks: 104 total, 1 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 1.2% us, 0.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 98.1% wa, 0.1% hi, > 0.0% si > > Mem: 126288k total, 124124k used, 2164k free, 612k > buffers > > Swap: 262136k total, 132232k used, 129904k free, 15156k > cached > > [snip] > > Roger, > > I suspect that your high load may be related to the amount of memory > you have in your system. Your output from top shows that you have > approximately 130MB of swap in use. I concur, the 98.1% of cpu time in disk wait, plus the amount of swap that is in use is a sure sign of disk swapage. Iostat and vmstat are really good, and so is free in this situation HTH MC
