On 26.3.2012 07:07, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > On 03/26/2012 07:31 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >>>> Are there tools or utilities to understand about the reason behind high >>>> load on CentOS Linux. >>>> Please help me understand with examples. > The load average has relationship with I/O. Not necessarily. I would define load as the number of processes who are waiting to get cpu time. While a process is waiting for cpu there are 2 cases: a) the cpu is blocked waiting for a I/O operation to finish b) the cpu is calculating for another process -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120326/9d735c0c/attachment-0004.sig>