strang high load

[tincboy]

I'm running many proxmox server and almost no problem with any of them
but one of them has high load which is strang for me because I can't find out what's the cause of this high load

here it's the out put of mpstat command which shows no high CPU or IO usage
Any help on this issue will be much apperciated.
mpstat 10 6
Linux 2.6.35-1-pve (cloud10) 08/10/11 _x86_64_
01:11:23 CPU %user %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %idle intr/s
01:11:33 all 12.17 4.63 11.80 0.74 0.00 0.19 0.00 70.47 56501.30
01:11:43 all 11.43 5.02 13.32 1.39 0.00 0.22 0.00 68.61 58989.81
01:11:53 all 12.04 5.17 14.32 0.57 0.00 0.30 0.00 67.59 59748.00
01:12:03 all 12.25 3.89 14.38 1.57 0.00 0.28 0.00 67.64 58513.40
01:12:13 all 11.06 8.31 12.98 1.28 0.00 0.31 0.00 66.06 57964.20
01:12:23 all 11.16 5.18 14.35 2.44 0.00 0.32 0.00 66.55 59221.20
Average: all 11.68 5.38 13.54 1.33 0.00 0.27 0.00 67.80 58489.74

 

[udo]

Hi,
what do you mean with high load? 5, 15, 30? And how many cores has the system?
The load shows how many processes are able to use the cpu - if your load is higher than cores, a process must wait for a free cpu-slot (or wait for io - this is often so, but than you see wait-percents with top).
If you have eight cores you normaly don't have trouble with an load of 7.

Udo