Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

On 12/29/2009 11:44 PM, Noob Centos Admin wrote:

My Centos 5 server has seen the average load jumped through the roof recently despite having no major additional clients placed on it. Previously, I was looking at an average of less than 0.6 load, I had a monitoring script that sends an email warning me if the current load stayed above 0.6 for more than 2 minutes. This script used to trigger perhaps once an hour during peak periods. Even so, I seldom see numbers higher than 1.x

You should also try out "atop" instead of just using top. The major advantage is that it gives you more information about the disk and network utilization.