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90% CPU 'Iowait - Waiting for I/O to complete'
- Posted on June 30, 2022
- DigitalOcean DropletsDockerServer Optimization
Asked by Nick Thorne
Node_Exporter is reporting 90% CPU use by ‘Iowait - Waiting for I/O to complete’. Any ideas where to go next to diagnose this further. The Droplet is CPU-Optimised Dedicated CPU 2vCPUs 4GB 25GBHDD 4TB IO $40/mo. It’s running Docker containers for postgres, ClickhouseDB, Django, certbot, nginx, multiple GoLang, Grafana, Prometheus
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Turns out it was a corrupt table in Postgres. Diagnosed by turning off various parts of the system while watching the IO chart closely. Then turning them back on. Solution delete and re-create the offending table. And thanks KFSys for the advice too. I may well split out some of the containers onto other droplets.
Hi @nickthorne,
I’ve never had such an issue however it seems to me like your CPU Utilization is pretty high. This means you are using more than 80 % of CPU Util with that in mind I think the best solution would be an upgrade.