Site loads very very slow!!

arya6000 · 11-22-2008, 04:47 PM

Hi

My server would get to load 10 and the pages would still load in a good time. but now when the server is at load 2.00 the pages take forever to load, the server's hdd got 98% full and I deleted some files and now its 91% Full, does that have to do with it being so slow? How can I find out if its the hard drive that is causing the pages to load slow?

Thank You!

syg00 · 11-22-2008, 05:30 PM

"top" and "vmstat" both show the "wa" metric which can loosely be thought of as "disk wait". If you have a problem with the disks, that'll probably be the first indicator.
Better usage numbers can be obtained from iostat which is part of the sysstat package.