Major Load please help

[Peter Bonivart]

Vicchiullo, Rob wrote:
> # vmstat 5
>  procs     memory            page            disk          faults
> cpu
>  r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m1 m2 m3 m4   in   sy   cs us
> sy id
>  0 0 0 2088032 1462840 181 3137 137 22 22 0 0 1 1 1  0 1830 2546 1574 13
> 9 77
>  4 1 0 1053696 800216 2253 11257 12 62 62 0 0 0 0 0  0 3366 54536 2994
> 34 40 27
>  2 2 0 1007104 776624 616 18693 64 91 91 0 0 0 1  2  0 3847 21591 2947
> 44 49 7
>  3 2 0 944688 769040 272 18003 352 51 51 0 0 3 7  3  0 4086 16548 2932
> 41 48 11
>  1 2 0 931016 757096 119 20243 110 25 25 0 0 0 0  0  0 3293 14407 2505
> 43 53 3
>  2 1 0 966240 770096 140 17507 40 20 20 0 0 0  0  1  0 3147 15065 2556
> 42 44 14
>  0 2 0 1035320 791912 254 13795 380 60 60 0 0 0 0 0  0 3288 13310 2604
> 34 34 31
>  1 2 0 1080168 798040 389 10160 177 51 51 0 0 0 0 1  0 3276 13934 2809
> 21 27 52
>  0 2 0 1098176 803424 1769 5539 161 91 91 0 0 0 1 3  0 3396 44703 3048
> 27 26 48

This doesn't look to bad, you never have more processes in the queue
than you have CPU:s and most of the time you have lots of CPU left. The
IO looks worse I would say. Of course this is too little info to analyze
but anyway.

What system model is it? What kind of disk system do you have in it? Can
you put more disks in it to even out the load?

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