[Cialug] How to determine the cause of a Linux performance problem?

[Paul Gray]

On 02/27/2012 07:49 AM, Pixel // pinterface wrote:

> It appears (via top) that the processes bumping up the load average by
> being in wait states are often "kjournald" and "flush-###",
>

The above would imply a lot of logging activity.  It could either be the 
direct cause due to frantic logging, or some system event that would be 
inducing a lot of logs.

Are any of your logs "exceptionally" large in comparison to previous log 
files?

tail /var/log/daemon.log
tail /var/log/auth.log
tail /var/log/messages

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