On 6/9/2011 1:02 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 6/9/11, Steven Tardy<s...@its.msstate.edu> wrote: >> top Cpu(s) line is averaged for all cpus/cores. to display individual >> cpus/cores press: >> 1 >> you'll likely see one cpu/core being pegged with iowait. >> to identify the offending process within top press: >> fj<enter> >> to display the P column(last used CPU). >> watch top for a few minutes to see what is using all of the disk io. > > Thanks for these tips, it really helped narrow down the issue. Became > quite clear that cpu 0 was taking up most of the user and sys time, > somewhere in the 10x compared to the other 3. >
Also consider installing "atop", which I find to be a bit more self-explanatory then regular "top". _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
