Hi Uwe, my idea was to reduce the number of SCST processes per LUN on the storage servers as the default is 8. It can be changed live, I've tested. But I've also seen that on storage1703 and storage1804 it is already set to 1. $ for i in `ls -1 /sys/kernel/scst_tgt/devices`; do cat /sys/kernel/scst_tgt/devices/$i/threads_num; done So there seems to be no possibility to further reduce the number of kernel processes. Cheers, Sebastian -- 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