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. >> How did you know there is a high load in the first place? > Using "w" command - top - iotop The load average has relationship with I/O. If you have RAID system, check what the status says you. You might be on a degraded RAID (broken, rebuilding,...) eating much disk I/O. -- RMA. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos