From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:49:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021006024902.GB31878@pegasys.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033871869.1247.4397.camel@phantasy>
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 10:37:48PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 22:18, jw schultz wrote:
>
> > They shouldn't be affecting the load average because they
> > aren't on the runqueue.
>
> TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE processes are counted in count_active_tasks() -
> because it is assumed they will only sleep a very short while - which is
> what is used in the load balance.
I stand corrected. The load average reported will reflect
them. The D-state processes, however, will have nearly zero
effect on the system performance, yes? So in this case the
load average reported is simply an infated number.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-06 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-05 9:07 Thomas Langås
2002-10-05 18:11 ` Robert Love
2002-10-05 18:27 ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-05 23:56 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 2:18 ` jw schultz
2002-10-06 2:37 ` Robert Love
2002-10-06 2:49 ` jw schultz [this message]
2002-10-06 10:59 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 12:24 ` jw schultz
2002-10-06 14:36 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 16:42 ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-06 17:09 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 17:43 ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-07 12:24 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-16 0:33 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 14:30 ` Graham Murray
2002-10-06 14:54 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 20:26 ` Rik van Riel
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