Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

2010-08-20 Thread James Hogarth
Ok let's see pf -efc if we can and see what is listed as in the run queue On 20 Aug 2010 22:07, "Ed Donahue" wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Ed Donahue wrote: >>> We are currently running CentOS 5 update 4 on a Dell R910 server 1

Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

2010-08-20 Thread Ed Donahue
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Ed Donahue 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 at

Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

2010-08-20 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Ed Donahue 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

Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

2010-08-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/20/2010 2:03 PM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > On 20 August 2010 19:58, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: >> That's a high load average. What's top/nmon reporting? > Hum, should have said "high load average for an idle(ish) server". > Friday evening + beer + CentOS list = not a good idea. 'top' should show th

Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

2010-08-20 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 20 August 2010 19:58, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > That's a high load average. What's top/nmon reporting? Hum, should have said "high load average for an idle(ish) server". Friday evening + beer + CentOS list = not a good idea. -- Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org _

Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

2010-08-20 Thread James Hogarth
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" wrote: > We are currently runni

Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

2010-08-20 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
On 20 August 2010 19:48, Ed Donahue 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 averagin