I was monitoring it with SAR and there was very high level of IOWait, meaning the drive was having a hard time.
How bad does the below look? Dual core AM2 5600+ with 4G DDR2 and single SATA2 drive.
Matt
10:10:01 AM all 20.54 0.00 4.09 15.85 59.52 10:20:01 AM all 19.96 0.00 4.17 16.81 59.06 10:30:01 AM all 15.94 0.00 2.48 14.78 66.80 10:40:01 AM all 14.15 0.00 3.62 13.13 69.11 10:50:01 AM all 13.77 0.00 3.53 13.52 69.18 11:00:02 AM all 13.71 0.00 2.24 12.33 71.73 11:10:01 AM all 14.42 0.00 3.51 13.19 68.88 11:20:01 AM all 12.32 0.00 3.37 11.74 72.57 11:30:01 AM all 13.93 0.00 2.54 16.23 67.30 11:40:01 AM all 14.59 0.00 3.68 11.27 70.46 11:50:01 AM all 12.74 0.00 3.27 11.18 72.81 12:00:01 PM all 10.75 0.00 1.71 9.68 77.86 12:10:01 PM all 13.32 0.00 3.26 12.21 71.21 12:20:01 PM all 11.91 0.00 3.86 12.84 71.40 12:30:01 PM all 13.89 0.00 2.33 11.74 72.04 12:40:01 PM all 10.78 0.00 3.13 10.23 75.86 12:50:01 PM all 10.78 0.00 3.07 9.47 76.68 01:00:01 PM all 9.44 0.00 1.72 10.24 78.60 01:10:01 PM all 12.45 0.00 3.34 10.54 73.66 01:20:01 PM all 12.14 0.00 3.46 11.44 72.97 01:30:01 PM all 18.43 0.00 2.64 13.01 65.92 01:40:01 PM all 14.97 0.00 3.54 11.34 70.14 01:50:02 PM all 11.42 0.00 3.16 9.36 76.06 02:00:01 PM all 10.74 0.00 1.81 8.49 78.96 02:10:01 PM all 10.37 0.00 3.02 7.47 79.14 02:20:02 PM all 11.69 0.00 3.49 9.86 74.96 02:30:01 PM all 8.71 0.00 1.62 7.40 82.27 02:40:01 PM all 9.92 0.00 3.21 8.60 78.26 02:50:02 PM all 9.11 0.00 3.08 9.20 78.60 03:00:01 PM all 12.38 0.00 2.12 11.28 74.22 03:10:01 PM all 12.17 0.00 3.38 9.51 74.94 03:20:01 PM all 10.21 0.00 3.17 10.73 75.90 03:30:01 PM all 13.11 0.00 2.51 16.24 68.13 03:40:01 PM all 13.11 0.00 3.22 8.39 75.28 03:50:01 PM all 9.08 0.00 2.92 7.47 80.54 04:00:02 PM all 7.51 0.00 1.43 5.94 85.12 04:10:02 PM all 11.25 0.00 3.23 10.89 74.63 04:20:01 PM all 12.52 0.00 3.62 9.57 74.29 04:30:01 PM all 9.07 0.00 1.61 6.85 82.47 04:40:02 PM all 8.86 0.00 2.80 7.74 80.61 04:50:01 PM all 8.37 0.00 2.80 6.67 82.16 05:00:01 PM all 9.10 0.00 1.38 6.17 83.34 05:10:01 PM all 10.93 0.00 3.01 6.24 79.81 05:20:01 PM all 8.60 0.00 3.48 7.52 80.40 05:30:01 PM all 7.37 0.00 1.44 6.14 85.04 05:40:01 PM all 10.30 0.00 3.03 6.79 79.88
05:40:01 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %idle 05:50:01 PM all 7.20 0.00 2.49 5.08 85.23 Average: all 14.13 0.00 3.12 14.85 67.90