UDP packet loss

[Scott S. Bertilson]

> top - 21:02:00 up 45 days,  4:46,  1 user,  load average: 2.44, 1.69, 1.29
> Tasks:  58 total,   1 running,  57 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 28.4% us,  3.8% sy,  0.0% ni, 67.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> Mem:   6105240k total,  1812744k used,  4292496k free,   112084k buffers
> Swap:  6289436k total,        0k used,  6289436k free,   585236k cached

  Do you ever see the "% wa" non-zero when queries
aren't being answered?
  Also, do you see anything interesting in the output
of:
    netstat -na --inet |
    perl -ne 'next if (!/:53\s+/); @f = split; print if ($f[1]+$f[2] > 0);'
at those times?

If you want to track the disk wait over time, you
might want to run "vmstat".
					Scott