Thanks for the quick followup Baron..

 vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- 
-----cpu------
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa st
 3  0    100 499380 139256 5604000    0    0   190   693   11   11 20  2 70  8  0

iostat -dx 5 5

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s   r/s   w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz 
  await  svctm  %util
sda               0.02   187.72  0.28 10.36     4.66  1584.73   149.44     2.03 
 191.16   5.23   5.56
sdb               1.85   371.84 21.72 56.86  1514.44  3956.67    69.63     2.63 
  33.43   3.44  27.03

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s   r/s   w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz 
  await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00  1527.80  0.40 73.80     3.20 12812.80   172.72     1.59 
  21.46   0.24   1.76
sdb               0.00    11.60  2.40 10.80    65.60   950.40    76.97     0.08 
   5.82   3.67   4.84

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s   r/s   w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz 
  await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00   173.00  0.00 11.60     0.00  1476.80   127.31     0.58 
  50.24   8.22   9.54
sdb               0.00     5.80  0.00 13.40     0.00   153.60    11.46     2.61 
 195.13   5.63   7.54

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s   r/s   w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz 
  await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00  1624.40  0.00 126.00     0.00 14003.20   111.14     
5.31   42.14   0.38   4.84
sdb               0.00   599.60  0.00 82.20     0.00 15697.60   190.97     1.79 
  21.75   2.32  19.08

Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s   r/s   w/s   rsec/s   wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz 
  await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00  1538.80  0.20 61.60     1.60 12803.20   207.20     5.10 
  82.48   2.37  14.62
sdb               0.20     1.00  7.40  2.40   200.00    27.20    23.18     0.22 
  22.73  10.73  10.52


The above is when low to medium load.. 



________________________________
From: Baron Schwartz <ba...@xaprb.com>
To: dbrb2002-...@yahoo.com
Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 5:50:11 AM
Subject: Re: MySQL Closing/Opening tables

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:19 AM,  <dbrb2002-...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Recently I noticed the server takes lot of time on and off when opening and 
> closing tables. And I tried to increase the table_cache more the the total 
> tables (file_limit is properly set); and the problem still continues and 
> lowering it also continues.. and tried to set in middle.. same
>
> Any thoughts on fixing this ? I am going crazy..
>
> Sometimes the threads spin 10-60secs in just opening and closing tables 
> state..

Have you checked to see if your disk is saturated with requests?  Try this:

vmstat 5 5
iostat -dx 5 5

Assuming you're on a Unix-like OS.

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