Subject: Re: odd load patterns

From: Miles Fidelman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 10:09:10 -0400

On 9/14/16 2:53 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote:

> On Tuesday 13 September 2016 20:09:26 Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Lately, our server has been showing high loading, but top shows that the
>> CPU is mostly in wait mode, and iotop shows low disk i/o traffic.
> How do you know the load is high? Where is the indication coming from?

Umm... "top" and "iotop"  (which addresses your own follow-up question)

> I'm interested in more opinions and diagnostic tools too because my laptop
> suddenly became very slow and unresponsive yesterday until I restarted it. top
> was showing a mostly idle cpu but kde system activity was displaying a lot of
> "disk sleep".
>
>

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