[Users] high load average on OpenVZ servers

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Thu Mar 19 02:35:53 EDT 2009


> > One of them have 12 VEs, not CPU intensive, and we are having this
> load:
> 
> You don't mention what you have for disks.  On Linux the load average
> includes processes blocking on I/O.  A slow disk setup can cause a
high
> load.

But then 'wa' would show a higher value.

- Dietmar





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