[SunHELP] iowait problem...

[Devrim Yilmaz (Garanti Teknoloji)]

Hi;
Here is my case. This server has lots of iowaits and i want to find the
reason. If you have any ideas, it makes me happy.

Regards..
dEVRim-

last pid:  1677;  load averages:  2.13,  2.16,  2.17                   13:01
77 processes:  76 sleeping, 1 on cpu                                        
CPU states:  0.0% idle,  2.6% user,  4.8% kernel, 92.6% iowait,  0.0% swap  
Memory: 512M real, 7632K free, 1076M swap in use, 319M swap free            
                                                                            
   PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND       
   578 oracle9    1  60    0  267M  179M sleep  241:53  1.03% oracle        
   572 oracle9    1  60    0  262M  179M sleep  240:11  0.83% oracle        
   574 oracle9    1  60    0  268M  179M sleep  247:19  0.72% oracle        
   622 oracle9    5  59    0  111M 2032K sleep  156:58  0.57% webcached     
   596 oracle9    8  60    0   11M 5216K sleep   67:47  0.34% jre           
   614 oracle9    8  59    0   73M 1440K sleep  140:34  0.32% webcached     
  4250 oracle9   39  30    0   70M   12M sleep   18:54  0.28% java          
  1656 root       1  58    0 2552K  624K cpu      0:01  0.20% top           
  1676 oracle9    5  58    0   13M 4896K sleep    0:00  0.14% httpd         
  1677 oracle9    5  58    0   13M 4656K sleep    0:00  0.09% httpd         
   644 oracle9    4  58    0   14M 7120K sleep    5:10  0.07% httpd         
  1675 oracle9    5  58    0   13M 4656K sleep    0:00  0.07% httpd         
   576 oracle9    1  58    0  263M  138M sleep  255:29  0.07% oracle        
  1665 oracle9    4  58    0   14M 7272K sleep    0:00  0.06% httpd         
 17701 oracle9    4  58    0   14M 7016K sleep    0:39  0.05% httpd