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. --- Have you bothered to look at "lsof"? I find it really usefull... John