[CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

Fri Mar 28 01:33:38 UTC 2014
Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>

On 2014-03-27, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata <hawarden at ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 2014/03/27 12:20, Matt Garman wrote:
>> Anyone seen anything like this?  Any thoughts or ideas?
>
> Something of a shot in the dark, but when we had a server with a high 
> load average where nothing obvious was causing it, it turned out to be 
> multiple df cmds hanging on a stale nfs mount.

Wouldn't those show up in D state?  The OP mentioned that he didn't see
processes hanging on IO.

--keith


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