On 2014-03-27, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata <hawarden at ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote: > On 2014/03/27 12:20, Matt Garman wrote: >> Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts or ideas? > > Something of a shot in the dark, but when we had a server with a high > load average where nothing obvious was causing it, it turned out to be > multiple df cmds hanging on a stale nfs mount. Wouldn't those show up in D state? The OP mentioned that he didn't see processes hanging on IO. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us