From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 12 23:14: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F348437B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:14:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838B543FAF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:14:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from muir@idiom.com) Received: from idiom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idiom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1D7E1uq004269 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from muir@idiom.com) Received: (from muir@localhost) by idiom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1D7E1Bn004268; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from muir) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:14:01 -0800 (PST) From: David Muir Sharnoff Message-Id: <200302130714.h1D7E1Bn004268@idiom.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is my load average so high? References: <20030212004951.2EGB26220@wjv.com> Organization: Idiom Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you have process accounting turned on, try "sa -D". I recently had a similar problem with a mail server. It turned out that sendmail was eating the disk bandwidth because I had too many processes running the queue. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message