On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Toth, Csaba <[email protected]> wrote:
> The CPU load was close to 0. Still we had very high load => I thought it can 
> be only HDD.

run "dstat -cdny" , check how much I/O is going to dsk, check the
network I/O and also interrupts per second. Interrupts can cause a
high load or just unresponsiveness and may not be related to disk I/O
. Also run "iostat -d #" where # is the # of seconds between updates,
e.g. iostat -d 3, and look at the tps column which will show you how
many iops it's doing. A single 7200 sata drive will only give you ~100
IOPS of random I/O . You can also use htop, enable the io read rate
and io write rate columns, sort by one of these columns to see if
there are processes generating lots of I/O .

You can use "dmidecode" to determine what sort of Dell it is. Also
install OMSA to get access to the cli utilities like omreport and if
you want, the web gui at https://localhost:1311 to see your disk
subsystems. However, these won't really tell you if something is wrong
with the controller (only if the firmware and driver versions are
outdated).

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