Systems whose primary role is serving data requests, typically databases, webservers, and fileservers, can see high load but it is driven by IO rather than processing. Similarly, disk contention and or swapping can also result in high load.
Lesson: also look at iowait, swapping, and VM statistics.
Systems whose primary role is serving data requests, typically databases, webservers, and fileservers, can see high load but it is driven by IO rather than processing. Similarly, disk contention and or swapping can also result in high load.
Lesson: also look at iowait, swapping, and VM statistics.