[CentOS] load level?

[Filipe Brandenburger]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Kevin Faulkner <kevlar.kernel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up your
> hard disks. You aren't just limited to top, you can  also use vmstat and
> iostat in this situation.

I also recommend dstat (http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/). It
shows informations from several sources, so it's possible to see if
you have CPU peaks and I/O peaks at the same time.

Filipe