Re: Very High Load, kernel 2.4.18, apache/mysql

Bernd Eckenfels
2002-09-25T03:45:06Z

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0209242223040.22735-100000@imladris.surriel.com> you wrote:
> If it's IO bound, it's quite possible the problem is the disk
> elevator and Andrew Morton's read-latency2 patch might help
> somewhat (if the system is heavy on both reads and writes).

hmm.. it does not look so from the posted stats, or do you think so? 10%
system time and 0% idle.

> It would make sense to study the output of top and vmstat for
> a few hours to identify exactly what the problem is

yes, I think so.

Greetings
Bernd