RH 8; intermittend very high load

From: Sander (mail04_at_sanderscorner.com)
Date: 04/24/04

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    Hi,

    I'm running two RH 8 servers (Dell 650, SCSI disks, 512Mb). From time to
    time (not regular intervals) for a period of several hours the load rises
    very high (5+, normally 0.1-0.3). Top doesn't show any very busy
    processes, CPU% is quite low (most of the time top is the busiest
    program). vmstat doesn't show anything terribly bad, runqueue 0 most of
    the time, CPU idle 95-100%, i/o nothing spectacular and not swapping.

    (and no, there's no cron job running at that time...)

    Any ideas what next to look for? I'm a bit out of ideas...

    Sander de Boer

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