[CentOS] High load since passing from rhas3 to centos4.8

[JohnS]

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 15:47 -0500, fortin.pierre at bell.ca wrote:
> > We are migrating HP servers from RHAS3 to centos 4.8. Since, the load
> > average is reaching really high values. Under usage we see loads of
> > 15-20 instead of the 0.5-1.5 we were used to.
> >
> > I searched a lot for information on such an issue. Iostat, vmstat, top,
> > ps. But I don't get significant hint.
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Have you bothered to look at "lsof"?  I find it really usefull...

John