----- "Günter Zimmermann" <guenter.zimmermann at 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. -- Christopher G. Stach II