[CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 20 August 2010 19:48, Ed Donahue <liberaled at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are currently running CentOS 5 update 4 on a Dell R910 server 16
> cores/32 hyperthreaded with 64GB of memory. It is our main Oracle 11g
> DB server for one of our customers and is attached to an MD 3000
> storage array. We are having a load averaging around 5 but see no swap
> in use, CPUs are pretty much idle and no I/O wait. We have Oracle
That's a high load average. What's top/nmon reporting?
Run nmon with -t -f -s 10 -c 180 to collect  half an hours worth of
data and put it through the analyser. It should give you a good idea
of what's happening on your server.

Are your servers purely Oracle servers or are they also serving other
software? Any slow NFS mounts?
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