Ps auxr On 12/18/09, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Florian Philipp > <li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> My virtual server seems to have a problem and I don't know how to find it. >> >> Today, while trying to create a new postgresql database I noticed that >> certain system operations seem to take ages. Normal work on the shell >> works just fine but for example accessing the postgresql server through >> psql, restarting tomcat, postgresql or zope all show the very same >> behavior: >> Execution freezes, the load average climbs to 1-1.9 and after a few >> minutes (maybe longer) the task finishes correctly. During all this >> time, top reports that the CPUs are 100% idle. >> >> Other services, for example rsyncd or openvpn, work normally. I also >> tried restarting the VM. Shutdown took maybe 10 or 15 minutes. Booting >> was much faster with only a few minutes until all services were up and >> running. However, it didn't solve the problem. >> >> So, my question is: How can I find out what is causing this? Can I >> somehow trace it? Find out why a process waits? > > top, iotop, latencytop, powertop > >
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