Hi all,

Can any one tell me what actions should be taken when there is more
iowait and less idle % on a solaris servers where around 13 oracle
databases are running.

Below is the snapshot of the top command.

last pid: 11328; load averages: 3.33, 3.59, 3.75
13:53:41
932 processes: 864 sleeping, 64 zombie, 4 on cpu
CPU states: 5.2% idle, 24.7% user, 24.0% kernel, 46.1% iowait, 0.0%
swap
Memory: 2048M real, 30M free, 2452M swap in use, 2627M swap free

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
5113 root 1 60 10 1912K 1488K sleep 0:12 3.84% filmon
13414 batch 1 32 0 83M 60M sleep 1:50 2.10% oracle
26102 batch 1 31 0 81M 58M cpu0 1:39 2.05% oracle
9634 batch 1 51 0 317M 296M sleep 0:03 1.63% oracle
28943 batch 1 60 0 81M 61M sleep 8:11 1.21% oracle
9805 batch 1 60 0 69M 52M sleep 1:27 0.92% oracle
3359 batch 11 54 0 318M 297M sleep 11:31 0.86% oracle
417 batch 1 60 0 69M 51M cpu9 19:17 0.78% oracle
23230 oracle 235 58 0 73M 47M sleep 10:45 0.76% oracle
16292 batch 1 60 0 88M 68M sleep 0:15 0.63% oracle
12432 batch 1 44 0 16M 6056K sleep 0:36 0.60% emco560m
1 root 1 58 0 752K 200K sleep 9:23 0.42% init
16910 oracle 14 58 0 317M 290M sleep 0:33 0.41% oracle
24425 root 1 34 0 2584K 1528K sleep 0:16 0.35% top
16830 oracle 160 58 0 84M 55M sleep 3:02 0.33% oracle



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