On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:46 -0800, Edward Moon wrote:
> top - 09:51:20 up 4 days, 14:54, 1 user, load average: 4.99,
2.77,
1.85
> Tasks: 104 total, 1 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 1.2% us, 0.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 98.1% wa, 0.1% hi,
0.0% si
> Mem: 126288k total, 124124k used, 2164k free, 612k
buffers
> Swap: 262136k total, 132232k used, 129904k free, 15156k
cached
[snip]
Roger,
I suspect that your high load may be related to the amount of memory
you have in your system. Your output from top shows that you have
approximately 130MB of swap in use.
I concur, the 98.1% of cpu time in disk wait, plus the amount of swap
that is in use is a sure sign of disk swapage.
Iostat and vmstat are really good, and so is free in this situation
HTH
MC