Stephane Ascoet via rsync wrote: > > Is there iowait? If so, that might be the problem. Also, > > Where can I see this information?
in the header section of top: top - 12:25:13 up 43 days, 22:31, 4 users, load average: 0.18, 0.18, 0.12 Tasks: 366 total, 1 running, 365 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 3.2 us, 1.1 sy, 1.6 ni, 91.6 id, 2.5 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 7905444 total, 623888 free, 584760 used, 6696796 buff/cache KiB Swap: 19543036 total, 18603192 free, 939844 used. 6345040 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND On the "%Cpu" line, where it says "wa", that's the percentage of CPU time spent waiting for an I/O device. When it's high, things are bad, and there will be processes below that show "D" in the "S" column. Those processes are the ones waiting on the I/O. cheers, raf -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html