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top - 18:10:07 up 1 day, 7:01, 5 users, load average: 12.56, 12.52, 11.24
Tasks: 132 total, 2 running, 130 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.9%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 85.1%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.3%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2061372k total, 2045664k used, 15708k free, 30264k buffers
Swap: 4200888k total, 2994480k used, 1206408k free, 333896k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
5229 root 16 0 159m 86m 6072 S 8.3 4.3 91:57.71 gwpoa
5473 root 16 0 3970m 1.3g 5620 S 4.3 63.7 20:59.80 gwia
1396 extol 15 0 75844 19m 4112 S 0.3 1.0 1:49.23 nxagent
2385 extol 17 0 169m 5592 3800 S 0.3 0.3 1:09.68 gnome-system-moThe CPu utilization is very high almost 100% all the time and this cause slow performance for all users.
You can see that the percentage for %wa is very high and what I know is wa meaning the CPU is waiting for i/o.