Why is there a delay between two consecutive "ls" commands?
Issue
- We're encountering recently anomalies as there is a delay between we press "enter" and execution of the command in the command line.
Second time, delay is 22seconds
[root@server1 sa]# time ls
sa01 sa02 sa30 sa31 sar01 sar30 sar31
real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.000s
[root@server1 sa]#
[root@server1 sa]#
[root@server1 sa]# time ls
sa01 sa02 sa30 sa31 sar01 sar30 sar31
real 0m22.319s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.001s
[root@server1 sa]#
[root@server1 sa]#
[root@server1 sa]# time ls
sa01 sa02 sa30 sa31 sar01 sar30 sar31
real 0m1.857s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.001s
[root@server1 sa]#
[root@server1 sa]#
- The load average is a little bit unstable, right now it is:
[root@server1 ~]# uptime
16:41:56 up 3 days, 58 min, 3 users, load average: 6.30, 4.92, 4.32
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The IO wait according to say is at least 39%
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Machine was rebooted last friday around 15 (31/aug/2013)
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It's a virtual vmware machine.
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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EMC SAN
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