I had an HP Box run  IO numbers like that  when its array ( a j-box) 
was  failing.

I'm sure drive failure is not your problem....

 From the looks of it, I'd look a little further away from the system... 
maybe at...... DB Indexing.

DB Indexing combined with a critical amount of data indexed can cause 
the system to load down during read ops.    I bet your db server does 
not automatically clean indexes.       See if you can rebuild the 
indexes...or better yet, mount another drive and move the dbfiles and 
indexes to that drive.



Dustin Puryear wrote:

>I am studying a SCO OSR5 system that has serious performance issues. I am
>interested in hearing your critiques, suggestions, and corrections about my
>performance analysis, suggested courses of action, and, in general, anything
>else that you feel is relevant. I also hope that this post and resulting
>thread will help others in troubleshooting performance issues on a SCO or
>Unix server, since it can be something of a mystic art.
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