Consistent high CPU IOwait with low disk latency
Issue
- Consistent high CPU IOwait observed despite low disk latency, leading to dropped application performance.
09:10:20 AM CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %steal %irq %soft %guest %gnice %idle
Average: all 0.99 0.01 0.31 16.03 0.00 0.13 0.09 0.00 0.00 82.44
Average: 0 0.97 0.01 0.31 15.64 0.00 0.14 0.09 0.00 0.00 82.84
Average: 1 0.84 0.02 0.31 10.66 0.00 0.11 0.07 0.00 0.00 87.99
Average: 2 1.05 0.00 0.31 18.67 0.00 0.13 0.10 0.00 0.00 79.74
Average: 3 1.10 0.01 0.32 19.14 0.00 0.13 0.10 0.00 0.00 79.21
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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