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> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:05 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: RE: load level?
>
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > Kevin Faulkner wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up
> > > your hard disks. You aren't just limited to top, you can also use
> > > vmstat and iostat in this situation.
> >
> They're in the sysstat package
>
> > Starting sendmail back up puts me in the high 1's to low 2's
>
> I would think about isolating email then, especially if it's
> handling it unfiltered from the Internet.
After 15 minutes it dropped down to .75, now with httpd its back up
[root@devserver21 ~]# iostat
Linux 2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp (devserver21.internal.pdinc.us) 04/25/2008
avg-cpu: %user %nice %sys %iowait %idle
13.31 0.00 11.66 0.12 74.91
Device: tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn
hdc 0.00 0.00 0.00 424 0
sda 2.44 12.81 34.34 116132748 311250630
sda1 0.00 0.00 0.00 8138 2214
sda2 5.34 12.81 34.34 116124346 311248368
dm-0 5.34 12.80 34.32 115985770 311090800
dm-1 0.00 0.02 0.02 137856 157616
not sure what I am looking at.
>
> -Ross
>
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