Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 16:51 +0100 schrieb fortin.pierre at bell.ca: > Hi > > > > We deployed centos 4.8 on HP DL380 G2, G3 and G4 servers (same number > of cpus). The same software is running on all servers. > > Only on G2 servers we see a low cpu utilization combined with high > load-average. > > For example, during the same time of day and same workload, on a G2 I > see a l-avg of 11.31 and on a G4 I see 2.68. > > > > The server response time seems unchanged and we don’t have any problem > with it so far, but I need to figure out why the l-avg remains high. > > We were running redhad AS 3 before, and the l-avg was low on all > server type. > > > > Anyone have an idea where I should look. > > Try "iostat -x 10" and look if the disks are busy. Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Frankfurt: Messeturm | Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany Management board/Vorstand: Dr. Steffen Boehnert | Dr. Alexis Eisenhofer | Dr. Yann Samson | Matthias Wiederwach Supervisory board/Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Dr. Ernst zur Linden (chairman/Vorsitzender) Register court/Handelsregister: Munich – HRB 128 972 | Sales tax ID number/St.Nr.: DE205 370 553