I found somwthing that could be hust my case... the virtualbox module: This process: iprt-VBoxTscThr is in "D" state so as stated here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/7777 for every process in "D" state, linux load is raised by one. Do you think it could be the problem? How to address it? I see it using in another system this simple script: while true; do date; ps auxf | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done that output: [...] root 25582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 11:42 0:00 \_ [iprt-VBoxTscThr] Fri Jul 31 11:42:10 CEST 2015 root 25582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 11:42 0:00 \_ [iprt-VBoxTscThr] Fri Jul 31 11:42:11 CEST 2015 root 525 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 00:00 0:01 \_ [md0_raid1] root 25582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 11:42 0:00 \_ [iprt-VBoxTscThr] Fri Jul 31 11:42:12 CEST 2015 root 25582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 11:42 0:00 \_ [iprt-VBoxTscThr] Fri Jul 31 11:42:13 CEST 2015 root 25582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 11:42 0:00 \_ [iprt-VBoxTscThr] Fri Jul 31 11:42:14 CEST 2015 root 25582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 11:42 0:00 \_ [iprt-VBoxTscThr] Fri Jul 31 11:42:15 CEST 2015 root 508 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 00:00 0:01 \_ [md127_raid1] root 637 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 00:00 0:01 \_ [jbd2/md127-8] root 25582 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 11:42 0:00 \_ [iprt-VBoxTscThr] [...] when "rcvboxdrv start" is started and I see that the system load raise with this