----- "Günter Zimmermann" guenter.zimmermann@gmx.at wrote:
Hi all,
I just installed centos 5.4 xen-kernel on intel core i5 machine as dom0. After some hours of syncing a raid10 array (8 sata disk) I noticed a steadily increasing loadavg. I think without reasonable i/o wait or cpu utilization the loadavg on this system should be very lower. If this loadavg is normal I would be greatful if somone could explain why. The screenshots below show that there is neither much i/o wait nor much cpu utilization.
Do you have any zombie or D state processes? Try:
ps -eo stat,command | awk '$1 ~ /^[DRZ]/{print}'
If you have any in D, you can use SysRq-T and/or the pid's wchan in /proc to figure out what they're doing or dmesg to figure out where they may have barfed.