Load isn't a bad thing. Load is the number of processes in the run queue. You have 16 cores and only 5 processes in the run queue. Are you witnessing poor responsiveness on that server?
What are you trying to really troubleshoot? On 20 Aug 2010 19:49, "Ed Donahue" <libera...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are currently running CentOS 5 update 4 on a Dell R910 server 16 > cores/32 hyperthreaded with 64GB of memory. It is our main Oracle 11g > DB server for one of our customers and is attached to an MD 3000 > storage array. We are having a load averaging around 5 but see no swap > in use, CPUs are pretty much idle and no I/O wait. We have Oracle > dataguard turned on in transactional mode. I've checked everything > that I can think of, there are no Oracle processes running which would > cause a spike. Anyone have any ideas as to what to check next? > > I have another R910 configured the same way and do not see any issues > with the 3 databases running on that server. The load is at .5. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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