Hi, Yesterday i installed the new 2.6.15-rc1 kernel to test ata passthrough to get smartctl working on my sata disks. After boot I noticed a rather high load of ~5. I checked with top, ps, but no processes where running taking up CPU, and the system was 100% idle: Cpu0 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Cpu1 : 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si After thinking about it, i realised i had 5 different software raid 1 partitions running, md0 to md4. After disabling each of them with with about 10 minutes in between, i saw the load drop by exactly 1 each time. This problem didn't happen on 2.6.14.2. Has anyone seen this problem before, maybe on another kernel ? As for smartctl, it works,but I didn't enable smartd nor mdadm when testing. System info/config: http://www.zolder.org/raidload Regards, -- Frido - 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