On Tue, September 30, 2008 4:43 pm, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Okay folks, I'm going out on a limb and admitting to some ignorance > here. Suppose I have a high load average on a server, let's say 20, > how do I tell what's really going on? I understand that load means > that there are processes waiting for some resource but how do I see > what resources they are waiting for? We don't want to go buy more RAM > and then find out that we had plenty of RAM, for instance. >
The most likely culprit is CPU time. Easiest way to check this is to run top, and see how many processes are sharing the CPU. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting LAMP & MU* Specialist /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
