yinyang@xxxxxxxxx (Gordon Messmer) writes: > $ ps ax | awk '{ if( match($3,/R/) ) { print } }' Replace R by (R|D) as you want to see if you have processes in uninterruptible sleep (you remember right when you said: "iirc load average is based upon processes waiting for I/O" except you should have add "is also based") -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer