Hi Kaushal, in addition to the solution provider by Mihamina to monitor the load average on your server, "htop" on CentOS can be more clear for you to read the output as well.
install rpmforge repo yum insall htop, type htop when done. look ay load average figure. then find out the cause. Thanks / Regards Prabhpal > On 03/26/2012 07:31 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >>>> Are there tools or utilities to understand about the reason behind >>>> high >>>> load on CentOS Linux. >>>> Please help me understand with examples. >>> How did you know there is a high load in the first place? >> Using "w" command > > - top > - iotop > > The load average has relationship with I/O. > > If you have RAID system, check what the status says you. You might be on > a degraded RAID (broken, rebuilding,...) eating much disk I/O. > > -- > RMA. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
