Linux 2.6.24-gentoo-r3-comtrance on x86_64 high Useage for unknown reasons
- by Dorjan
Hello everyone,
I'm a complete rookie when it comes to all things Linux related so please treat me as such and assume I know nothing. That being said my Top says this:
top - 12:08:03 up 11 days, 15:36, 0 users, load average: 5.47, 5.53, 5.46
Tasks: 296 total, 2 running, 294 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.3%us, 1.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 71.3%id, 20.6%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8176880k total, 8118236k used, 58644k free, 89312k buffers
Swap: 1004052k total, 0k used, 1004052k free, 7235652k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1229 root 15 -5 0 0 0 D 1 0.0 199:28.63 kjournald
2946 root 20 0 1716 676 552 D 1 0.0 145:02.94 syslogd
14553 root 20 0 2644 1268 876 R 1 0.0 0:00.34 top
14609 postfix 20 0 7896 1884 1460 D 1 0.0 0:00.02 bounce
14630 postfix 20 0 7896 1876 1452 R 0 0.0 0:00.00 bounce
And my hard drives says:
> df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 4925556 4474836 200508 96% /
/dev/sda5 489992 36090 428602 8% /tmp
/dev/sda6 377951852 236171160 122581816 66% /var
none 4088440 0 4088440 0% /dev/shm
It has been like it for a few days now...
I know not what is causing the high server load (Normally around 1.3) can anyone give any tips on how to track down the culprit?
Many thanks,