High system in %system load .

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 18 07:29:53 PST 2008


Igor Lyapin wrote:
> Hello
> Got strange problem with high system "%system load" and very slow user level
> programs (apache+php+mysql) behavior
> gstat shows 1.5-4% hard disk busy load but system shows about 20-30% load
> while user load is max 5%.
> vmstat shows from 2 to 35 process  in "b" state.
> Now use 7.0-RELEASE-p5 , but the same problem was with 7.0-RELEASE.
> And have no idea what to do with this.

Where is the system busy? For start, try to collect information about
what are your processes doing - for example from top(1).

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