[ale] Identify process causing high %wait

Atlanta Geek atlantageek at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 18:23:33 EDT 2008


Thanks guys.
This is happening intermittent.  So I am just going to add this stuff
to my monitoring script.
I suspect that all this is mysql related. So maybe this will give us
some hints on tuning.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:31 PM,  <timothy at meanor.net> wrote:
> That's your CPU waiting on I/O to complete.  Do this:
>  iostat -x 1
>
>  This will show how much is being written to your disk(s) every second.
>
>
>  -Tim
>
>  >>Hi,
>
> >>I have a fairly powerful box but sometimes the load gets up to 4 & 5
>  >>and looking at top I see 65% idle 30%wait
>  >>How do I identify the process that is causing the hight %wait.
>  >>
>
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