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

Fri Aug 20 19:01:26 UTC 2010
James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>

Load isn't a bad thing. Load is the number of processes in the run queue.
You have 16 cores and only 5 processes in the run queue. Are you witnessing
poor responsiveness on that server?

What are you trying to really troubleshoot?

On 20 Aug 2010 19:49, "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
> dataguard turned on in transactional mode. I've checked everything
> that I can think of, there are no Oracle processes running which would
> cause a spike. Anyone have any ideas as to what to check next?
>
> I have another R910 configured the same way and do not see any issues
> with the 3 databases running on that server. The load is at .5.
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