Subject: Re: [vserver] Exploding Load in v2.3
From: Remigiusz Modrzejewski <lrem@sphere.pl>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:29:50 +0100


On Jan 18, 2010, at 21:28 , Cryptronic wrote:

> top - 21:11:53 up 23 days,  5:55,  2 users,  load average: 1092.35,
> 530.76, 212.88
> Tasks: 5614 total,   3 running, 5531 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  3.6%us,  8.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 83.2%id,  4.6%wa,  0.0%hi,
> 0.3%si,  0.0%st
> Mem:  74376860k total, 73832132k used,   544728k free,  4835704k  
> buffers
> Swap: 140624968k total,  4019584k used, 136605384k free, 24147056k  
> cached


First idea: your system is probably swapping like crazy.
Can you paste vmstat and iostat results for when this happens?

Kind regards,
Remigiusz Modrzejewski