high sys cpu usage while copying a file

[ESGLinux]

Hi All,

I´m only going to say 2 things:
VMWare
Memory Ballooning,

that was the problem with the strange cpu usage,

Greetings



2010/3/24 ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com>

> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem with a RHEL 5.2 Server and I don´t know which can be the
> problem.
>
> when I copy a 2GB size file the system do the task very slow. If I run
> mpstat to see the cpu usage I see that there is a lot of % of sys and not to
> much of %iowait. I thought that the iowait was greater than the sys.
>
> This %sys is the time that spent the cpu on running kernel code, so I don´t
> know what is happening, How can I know what is the kernel doing while I´m
> copying the file?
>
> any idea?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> ESG
>