Load average is have been high over some period

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Published on 2012-04-02T12:59:18Z Indexed on 2012/04/02 17:32 UTC
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We have a dedicated MySQL server and below is the a snapshot of the top. The load average has been staying at nearly 100 for an hour plus ready.

top - 20:54:28 up  7:31,  2 users,  load average: 83.08, 96.88, 106.23
Tasks: 278 total,   2 running, 274 sleeping,   2 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  : 18.8%us, 10.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 70.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  : 51.2%us,  4.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 44.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Cpu2  :  9.0%us, 10.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 80.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu3  : 18.8%us,  7.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 73.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu4  :  7.8%us,  8.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 83.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu5  : 10.3%us,  8.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 81.4%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu6  :  6.2%us,  7.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.2%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu7  :  6.2%us,  6.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 87.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Cpu8  :  8.8%us, 10.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 80.5%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Cpu9  : 63.7%us,  4.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 12.2%id,  0.0%wa,  4.3%hi, 15.2%si,  0.0%st
Cpu10 :  9.2%us, 10.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 80.6%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu11 : 17.3%us,  5.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 76.8%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu12 :  8.0%us,  8.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 83.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu13 : 10.9%us,  7.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 81.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu14 :  6.2%us,  6.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.9%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu15 :  4.8%us,  6.1%sy,  0.0%ni, 89.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st

Mem:  33009800k total, 23174396k used,  9835404k free,   120604k buffers
Swap: 35061752k total,        0k used, 35061752k free, 16459540k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 3341 mysql     20   0 14.3g 4.6g 4240 S 417.8 14.5   1673:51 mysqld
24406 root      20   0 15008 1292  876 R  0.3  0.0   0:00.19 top
    1 root      20   0  4080  852  608 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.92 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.32 migration/0
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.29 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.21 migration/1
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.07 ksoftirqd/1
    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
    9 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.17 migration/2
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 ksoftirqd/2
   11 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/2
   12 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.32 migration/3
   13 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 ksoftirqd/3
   14 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/3
   15 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.10 migration/4
   16 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.04 ksoftirqd/4
   17 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/4
   18 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.35 migration/5

We have also tried to run this command. What else command can help us diagnose the exact problem of this high load?

netstat -nat |grep 3306 | awk '{print $6}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
      1 LISTEN
      1 SYN_RECV
    410 ESTABLISHED
    964 TIME_WAIT

Output of vmstat 1:

---------------memory--------------- --swap-- --io-- --system-- -----cpu------
 r b swpd  free     buff    cache    si so    bi  bo in  cs     us sy id wa st
 2 0 0     12978936 30944   15172360 0  0     259 3  184 265    6  6  77 12 0

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