On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:17:36AM -0700, Marc wrote: > > Performance issue, I'm experiencing here, is somewhat > > weird - server gets high average load (from 5 up to 15, > > 8 on average). Standard performance monitoring > > utilities (like top) show that CPUs are not loaded > > (below 20%, often near zero). > So ... you never actually say what the performance issue you > experience is. Having a high load average is not necessarily a > performance issue.
Well, if the server's CPUs are idle and the machine is starting to hog itself, one can suspect something bad going on. > What is it that you want to fix? Basically, I'm wondering if I'm already on the edge of performance capabilities of this machine/configuration, or maybe there's some abnormal behaviour happening (which could be noticed by somebody from this mailing list, hopefully). In particular - could someone tell me if those iostat values can tell if I'm close to upper performance boundary of fast SCSI (Ultra 320, 15k RPM) disks? -- 11. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
