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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:45:42 +1100
From:      "Andrew Nelson" <andrew__nelson@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Why is my load average so high?
Message-ID:  <F58IVvLVKi3s1wsXZZT000000cd@hotmail.com>

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Hi,

I've got a mail server which has started running
very slow.  The load average cycles up and down,
sometimes hitting above 150..  It's not spam (I
always have a look at the maillog when this happens)
and the processes running on the system all add up
to a reasonably low CPU and MEM usage..

There is nothing unusual in /var/log/messages
and i'm stumped..  It's on a RAID5 and the drives
are going like crazy..

how can I find the cause of this disk i/o ?

Thanks,
Andrew.



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