I know it's resolved, but look at the 6th column in the original post. 90+% iowait, 90% of the time, the cpu is waiting for IO.
now what you should do is run the same command when everything is working normally so you'll know what the output looks like. Then when you have another problem, you can compare with the normal output. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
