On 06/08/11 02:26, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > 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 > 02:50:01 PM all 2.17 0.00 2.18 4.30 0.00 91.35 > 03:00:01 PM all 2.47 0.00 2.23 3.57 0.00 91.73 top Cpu(s) line is averaged for all cpus/cores. to display individual cpus/cores press: 1 you'll likely see one cpu/core being pegged with iowait. to identify the offending process within top press: fj<enter> to display the P column(last used CPU). watch top for a few minutes to see what is using all of the disk io. sar output is averaged over the 10 minute interval. for smaller sar time slices edit cron file: /etc/cron.d/sysstat disks are often swamped by "two things happening at once"... backups migrating a VM database upgrades .rrd average updates -- Steven Tardy Systems Analyst Information Technology Infrastructure Information Technology Services Mississippi State University sjt5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos