Hi I have gone through your

wilonai10 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:28:01 +0000

Hi I have gone through your post. And yes it is possible that sometime Log files can use a huge portion of CPU. And that time your load level increases And your server become slow. So it is wise to disable those log files. Thank you very much for your posting.

You can tell if file accesses

JeevesBond — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:17:00 +0000

You can tell if file accesses are causing high load averages by looking at the iowait percentage in top (labelled 'wa' on our copy of top).

I wouldn't have thought log files would cause this problem, however. More likely is the database reading/writing to database files or the server swapping virtual memory.