High server load - [jbd2/md1-8] using 99.99% IO
- by Alex
I've been having spike in load over the last week. This usually occurs once or twice a day. I've managed to identify from iotop that [jbd2/md1-8] is using 99.99 % IO. During the high load times there is no high traffic to the server.
Server specs are:
AMD Opteron 8 core
16 GB RAM
2x2.000 GB 7.200 RPM HDD Software Raid 1
Cloudlinux + Cpanel
Mysql is properly tuned
Apart from the spikes, the load usually is around 0.80 at most.
I've searched around but can't find what [jbd2/md1-8] does exactly. Has anyone had this problem or does anyone know a possible solution?
Thank you.
UPDATE:
TIME TID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO COMMAND
16:05:36 399 be/3 root 0.00 B/s 38.76 K/s 0.00 % 99.99 % [jbd2/md1-8]