Andrew Perrin said: > 51 root 9 0 0 0 0 DW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd my guess the culprit is probably this process. checking a redhat and suse systems here which run 2.4.x. kernel they both have that process but the status of it is SW not DW. check for other processes which have a STAT which has 'D' I don't know what khubd does other then it sounds like a kernel level thing nate