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Re:Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery by mobilethrow on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:21PM (#14962114)
There is one, a [hwrng] process, but I don't think that's it. It's also in D state on other virtual machines on the same host without this symptom.

(The process is probably from virtio-rng.)

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Re:Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery by blinkingled on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:07PM (#14962707)
I am assuming the guest (and host) kernels are sufficiently recent? I remember older kernels having a bug with load calculation. Does disabling Virtio-rng help? D state processes will cause rise in load average depending on NRCPUs.
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