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Load average keeps increasing on CentOS 5.3. This happens if you disable mcstrans service. The cron file `<tt>/etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron</tt>' hangs forever while executing command cat `<tt>/sys/hypervisor/uuid</tt>' and hence the number of processes on system keeps increasing. This leads to very steep increase in load average.

To solve the issue open file `<tt>/etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron</tt>'. Comment all code lines in it and write `<tt>exit 0</tt>' at the end of file.