Re: [ALUG] What would give me a high load average when tops reports nothing much?

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Chris G <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

I have an odd situation here, after a recent reboot my system seemed *very* slow indeed...

Try installing bootchart[1] it's perfect for this kind of problem and packaged up in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora. If it was just the once maybe it was due to a file system check at boot? Hope that helps, Dennis [1] http://www.bootchart.org/