[CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage

Wed Jun 8 08:49:16 UTC 2011
Leonard den Ottolander <leonard at den.ottolander.nl>

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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