Serious iowait issues

Hi,
I am running a number of large databases on my Linux box, and am running into performance problems.

Memory usage: low
CPU usage: low
iowait: very high, nearing 100%

That above is reported by "top".

What are my choices?
--change my box to something with very fast disk - raid, scsi?
--buy a lot of ram, and use that as mysql cache

appreciate your advice.

 

 

 

 

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