[CentOS] load level?

Fri Apr 25 22:12:20 UTC 2008
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:05 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: [CentOS] load level?
> 
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > Kevin Faulkner wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up
> > > your hard disks. You aren't just limited to top, you can  also use
> > > vmstat and iostat in this situation.
> >
> They're in the sysstat package
> 
> > Starting sendmail back up puts me in the high 1's to low 2's
> 
> I would think about isolating email then, especially if it's
> handling it unfiltered from the Internet.


After 15 minutes it dropped down to .75, now with httpd its back up




[root at devserver21 ~]# iostat
Linux 2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp (devserver21.internal.pdinc.us)       04/25/2008

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys %iowait   %idle
          13.31    0.00   11.66    0.12   74.91

Device:            tps   Blk_read/s   Blk_wrtn/s   Blk_read   Blk_wrtn
hdc               0.00         0.00         0.00        424          0
sda               2.44        12.81        34.34  116132748  311250630
sda1              0.00         0.00         0.00       8138       2214
sda2              5.34        12.81        34.34  116124346  311248368
dm-0              5.34        12.80        34.32  115985770  311090800
dm-1              0.00         0.02         0.02     137856     157616


not sure what I am looking at.


> 
> -Ross
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