[CentOS-virt] steadily increasing/high loadavg without i/o wait or cpu utilization

Fri Nov 20 09:41:49 UTC 2009
Christopher G. Stach II <cgs at ldsys.net>

----- "Günter Zimmermann" <guenter.zimmermann at gmx.at> wrote:

> Thank you for your reply. I could find just one process in D and this
> is
> a delayed resync from another raid device. It is delayed because of
> the
> big resync in progress.  I think this is not the problem. Could the
> running resync cause the high loadavg without showing up i/o wait or
> cpu
> utilization in top?

It sure can. All of the D, R, and Zs count toward your load average. It looks like you should be somewhere approaching 8.

-- 
Christopher G. Stach II