Hi, on my c6.3 server (guest of a vmware host) I have a strange load average value: w command: > [root at s-doc ~]# w > 11:19:23 up 41 days, 23:15, 1 user, load average: 4,03, 4,03, 4,00 > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT > root pts/2 dodo:S.0 11:15 0.00s 0.02s 0.00s w top command: > top - 12:13:31 up 42 days, 9 min, 1 user, load average: 4.00, 4.01, 4.00 > Tasks: 127 total, 1 running, 126 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 1914596k total, 1783108k used, 131488k free, 86536k buffers > Swap: 2047992k total, 18884k used, 2029108k free, 246504k cached > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 863 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 0.3 0.0 26:05.07 xfsaild/dm-5 1 root 20 0 21452 1032 780 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.76 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.53 kthreadd 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:06.32 ksoftirqd/0 > 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.66 watchdog/0 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 27:33.90 events/0 8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cgroup > 9 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr 12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pm 13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:13.75 sync_supers > 14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:12.35 bdi-default But none of process still work, top have no process > 0,xx and also iotop value are > 0,xx. This is the vmstat output: > [root at s-doc ~]# vmstat 2 10 > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu----- > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st > 0 0 18884 131984 86508 246500 0 0 2 10 9 9 1 0 99 0 0 > 0 0 18884 131976 86508 246500 0 0 0 6 126 542 0 0 99 1 0 > 0 0 18884 131976 86508 246500 0 0 0 0 126 546 0 0 100 0 0 > 0 0 18884 131976 86508 246500 0 0 0 0 123 539 0 0 100 0 0 > 0 0 18884 131976 86508 246500 0 0 0 0 122 538 0 0 100 0 0 > 0 0 18884 131976 86508 246500 0 0 0 0 127 538 0 0 100 0 0 > 0 0 18884 131844 86508 246500 0 0 0 2 166 535 5 1 95 0 0 > 4 0 18884 131844 86508 246500 0 0 0 20 122 532 0 0 100 0 0 > 0 0 18884 131844 86508 246500 0 0 0 0 124 538 0 0 100 0 0 > 0 0 18884 131844 86512 246500 0 0 0 12 123 539 0 0 98 2 0 > There is some method to find out what it is that causes the load average >4.0 ? Many thanks for your reply. -- Dario Lesca - sip:dario at solinos.it (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 17 Gnome3)