Why does a system high-load occur? Load average is high.
Issue
- Why does a system high-load occur?
- System's load averages go up.
$ sar -q output
00:00:01 runq-sz plist-sz ldavg-1 ldavg-5 ldavg-15
<snip>
14:50:01 0 322 0.07 0.05 0.04
15:20:01 0 331 2.46 53.30 68.72
15:42:19 95 343 109.15 107.25 91.37
16:00:01 0 311 38.94 87.63 98.53
16:10:01 0 297 0.00 11.75 51.62
16:20:01 0 295 0.00 1.56 27.03
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
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