----- "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