On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 19:03:56 PM +0100, Marco Fioretti (mfioretti@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 12:55:16 PM -0500, Lamar Owen (lowen@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:19:33 pm M. Fioretti wrote: > > > besides hard drive and DVD burner there are only Logitech webcam, > > > wheelmouse and earphone microphone, but everything is plugged in > > > the back which is not really accessible without moving > > > furniture. I'll do that if needed, but isn't a way to check for > > > those interrupts from the prompt? > > > > Let's see if iowaits are you issue. Install the sysstat package > > (yum install sysstat) and run: iostat -x 1 > > > here it is, thanks for the tip. When it isn't zero, the await column > gives anything from 27.36 to 35.78 (last line) to 5 (I have already > posted top output in a comment to the web page): > > [root@polaris ~]# iostat -x 1 | egrep -i 'device|sda' Sorry, of course that's only the part of the story about sda. here is one complete run of iostat: 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 5.00 0.00 64.00 12.80 0.03 6.00 6.00 3.00 dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 64.00 8.00 0.04 4.38 3.75 3.00 dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 other runs show all null values for dm-0 / dm-1, or values similar to these Marco -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines