I did a reboot, the same thing. Even if the system is idle. >From "top": 8 root 18446744073709551615 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 28 root 18446744073709551615 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 29 root 18446744073709551615 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 30 root 18446744073709551615 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 >From "ps -ef" root 8 1 0 01:57 ? 00:00:00 [mdrecoveryd] root 28 1 0 01:57 ? 00:00:00 [raid5d] root 29 1 0 01:57 ? 00:00:00 [raid1d] root 30 1 0 01:57 ? 00:00:00 [raid1d] Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 1:42 AM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Odd md related top output with kernel 2.4.28 Neil, (or anyone) I just upgraded my system from kernel 2.4.20.8smp (redhat) to 2.4.28 (from kernel.org). I am making apache, and ran top to see how things were going. 2 processes have strange info. PIDs 8 and 28. Any ideas about what is going on? The system seems fine. Thanks, Guy >From "ps -ef" they look like this: root 8 1 0 Dec05 ? 00:00:00 [mdrecoveryd] root 28 1 0 Dec05 ? 00:00:02 [raid5d] 98 processes: 95 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 62.1% user 11.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 25.1% idle CPU1 states: 25.0% user 12.1% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 62.0% idle Mem: 515296k av, 188588k used, 326708k free, 0k shrd, 22800k buff 36692k active, 84512k inactive Swap: 524280k av, 0k used, 524280k free 70264k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 14574 root 13 0 2004 2004 960 R 24.9 0.3 0:00 0 sh 14562 root 16 0 1160 1160 856 R 6.4 0.2 0:00 1 top 14569 root 9 0 752 752 640 S 1.8 0.1 0:00 1 make 14571 root 9 0 1028 1028 888 S 0.9 0.1 0:00 1 sh 1 root 9 0 472 472 424 S 0.0 0.0 0:03 1 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 keventd 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd_CPU 4 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 ksoftirqd_CPU 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 kswapd 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 bdflush 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 kupdated 8 root 18446744073709551615 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 14 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 ahc_dv_0 15 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ahc_dv_1 16 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ahc_dv_2 17 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 ahc_dv_3 18 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 scsi_eh_0 19 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 scsi_eh_1 20 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 scsi_eh_2 21 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 scsi_eh_3 28 root 18446744073709551615 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:01 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html