[Xastir] Server slow

[Curt Mills]

I'm not at all pleased with the server company. A buddy of mine has had
worse troubles recently, but the Xastir server has had troubles in a
similar manner and is having them now:

top - 10:54:49 up 5 days, 16:38,  1 user,  load average: 4.01, 6.68, 7.65
Tasks: 116 total,   1 running, 115 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.1%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id, 99.9%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem:   1019956k total,   626328k used,   393628k free,    95680k buffers
Swap:  2064380k total,    27428k used,  2036952k free,   204540k cached

I'm seeing IOWAIT between 50 and 100%, which is unacceptable. If this
continues we can end up with disk corruption and I'll have to restore from
backups. That's what my friend is experiencing with his: disk corruption
and long-running apps having to be kicked each day. Ridiculous.

If anyone knows of a cheap and reliable VM that can be bought/rented,
please let me know. This one hasn't cost me much, but the reliability is
just not there. I'm almost to the point where I want to stand up my own
hardware and create multiple VM's off it.

-- 
Curt, WE7U
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