Looks like you are stuck in I/O wait. It might be a disk which is bad and just not responding, or you could be running your cache on a network disk...
john On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Steve Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > On June 10, 2011 02:33:32 PM Alvin Alexander wrote: > > Weird, mine can't work with port_attr string>, then I guess we should > wait > > for Alan to fix these :) I'm waiting for him also (TS-816) > > What I really need to figure out is why the system runs with such a high > load: > > top - 14:42:36 up 7 days, 52 min, 1 user, load average: 3.73, 2.51, 1.82 > > The system is literally doing *nothing* right now. ATS is loaded but not > taking requests, everything else is just idling (no other purpose for the > machine). > > Am I looking at a polling thing? Or maybe the software isn't using epoll, > although it picked it up in the config? This is a dual quadcore box but... > > vmstat shows > > > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- > ----cpu---- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id > wa > 1 0 20092 29237908 136340 18825256 1 2 140 297 6 0 1 2 > 96 > 1c > > So, virtually no processor or disk i/o but a high load anyways? > >
