Re: cause of IO wait

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Author: der.hans
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Subject: Re: cause of IO wait
Am 27. Jun, 2011 schwätzte James Mcphee so:

> If it's consistently consuming a lot of CPU, doing a "ps auxwww" and
> checking for blocked state should do it.


I hadn't done a good enough job of reviewing procs in blocked state.

I was able to restart sendmail and after-the-fact noted that sendmail had
been blocked.

Load avg is down to 3, but iowait is still 25%.

ciao,

der.hans
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