On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 11:12:12 AM Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote:
> RAM: 4.10 GB
> CPU: QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6), 5 cores
> 
> The server is a VM on a host server that also provides http / mysql
> services. The host server runs cron jobs to poll the email server
> (importing data from mail boxes into the CRM) so - to clutch at straws -
> I am not sure if the host and guest are competing for the disk IO at the
> same time with these calls. Contrary to that is that the host server
> does not experience any slow downs.

The best way to see if disk IO is the problem is to run iostat.  I run
"iostat -x 10" as I find that if a disk is at high load for 10 seconds that 
usually means that there is a serious performance issue.  In the top output 
you can see that multiple users have IMAP processes blocked on disk IO which 
is an indication that disk IO speed is probably the issue.

>    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND
>   7067 clam      20   0 1771m 361m 1584 S 29.5  8.6 265:23.91 clamd
>   6450 kylier    20   0 19300 2828 1404 D  1.0  0.1   0:00.03 imap
>   6544 root      20   0 15396 1552  888 R  1.0  0.0   0:00.29 top
>   3848 root      20   0 78752 3024 2244 S  0.7  0.1   0:00.23 auth
>   6398 vickij    20   0 18528 2072 1400 D  0.7  0.0   0:00.48 imap
>   6419 uuu.s  20   0 18524 2024 1388 D  0.7  0.0   0:00.42 imap
>   6424 uuuu  20   0 19300 2812 1404 D  0.7  0.1   0:00.23 imap

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