[CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage
Leonard den Ottolander
leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Wed Jun 8 08:49:16 UTC 2011
Hello Emmanuel,
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 15:26 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> Originally I suspected maybe it's i/o but on checking, there is very
> little i/o wait % as well.
> Cpu(s): 4.1%us, 2.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 76.4%id, 17.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
17% i/o wait time seems a significant amount to me. I'm not sure if
that's unusual when running multiple VMs, but it's probably worth
investigating a bit further.
Regards,
Leonard.
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