(In reply to Thomas Rother from comment #109) > b) What are the circumstances where it appears mainly (Answer: updated > systems which have old and new cronjobs running, as I understand?) My 42.3 System was a fresh install and has the problem (ssd). I also tried to replace the btrfs-balance and btrfs-trim scripts with the suggested combined btrfs-balance-trim script but that didn't change anything. (Mostly there is about 30 minutes of stagnation on fridays but sometimes it's several hours. BTW: I think the best workaround is to remove the scripts altogether and make the balance every 1 or 2 month by hand instead of disabling quotas.