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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 'D' processes on a healthy system?
Date: 19 Dec 2002 17:43:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1040319832.28973.4.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021219124043.GA28617@fishbowl.madduck.net>

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 12:40, martin f krafft wrote:
> [please CC me on replies]
> 19268 madduck   18   0  2208 2208  1076 D     1.3  0.4   0:00 sanitizer
>     6 root       9   0     0    0     0 DW    0.3  0.0   1:10 kupdated
>  8457 root      10   0  1156 1156   820 R     0.3  0.2   0:02 top
> 10843 postfix    9   0  1364 1364  1016 D     0.3  0.2   0:00 cleanup
>  3156 madduck    0   0   636  636   540 D     0.1  0.1   0:00 procmail
> 28356 root       9   0   292  288   240 R     0.0  0.0   0:01 supervise
> 28706 root       9   0  2060 2036  1724 D     0.0  0.4   0:00 sshd
> 21395 root      15   0  1944 1944  1876 D     0.0  0.3   0:00 zsh
> 
> notice the number of processes in       ^
> uninterruptible sleep mode in this column.

Your disk is too slow for the work being asked of it, thats all.
Eventually it'll get there

> My laptop, which is running Debian testing/unstable is not showing
> this behaviour, and its load goes far higher at times. I also run
> various other servers, partially on P5-120 systems, vanilla 2.4.xx
> kernels and Debian testing, and there are no such problems there.

sendmail tuning ?


  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-19 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-19 12:40 martin f krafft
2002-12-19 17:43 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-12-19 18:23   ` martin f krafft
2002-12-19 19:27     ` Alan Cox
2002-12-19 18:51       ` martin f krafft
2003-01-07  8:01       ` martin f krafft
2003-01-07  8:02         ` martin f krafft
2003-01-07 12:57         ` Alan Cox

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