On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 22:09, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Something is producing rather a lot of load on some of my boxes. Idle time > stays high (>95%) and the swap isn't getting used but there seems to be a lot > of disk i/o. Can anybody suggest anything useful for tracking down the > problem? Is iohog available on Linux (haven't found it yet....but looking)?
Don't know about iohog, but I had a very similar sounding problem last month (even down to the high idle time, but the load average got way up to about 17+). Antivirus software (Trend InterScan) on the mailserver turned out to be the culprit[0] - anything like that a possibilty? Regards, jmi [0] - best guess is that the scheduled pattern file change screwed something up somewhere. -- Jamie MacIsaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Fingerprint is 18-D3-92-70 Reach me on +44 (0) 7715 707078 or visit http://www.mackeysack.com/jmi
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