A raid6 array with a spare and bitmap is idle: not mounted and with no IO to it or any of its disks (obviously), as shown by iostat. However it's consuming cpu: since reboot it used about 11min in 24h, which is quite a lot even for a busy array (the cpus are fast). The array was cleanly shutdown so there's been no reconstruction/check or anything else. How can this be? Kernel is 2.6.22.16 with the two patches for the deadlock ("[PATCH 004 of 4] md: Fix an occasional deadlock in raid5 - FIX") and the previous one. - 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