How to debug high system load?

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Jul 12 13:29:54 UTC 2012


On 07/12/2012 12:00 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> So my question is since CPU usage is already so low, what could be
> driving up the system load? This is bugging me since I also see a
> general sluggishness compared to a much faster system early this year.

top should show you.  How much time in idle and wait states?

Andrew.


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