Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 05 Oct 2002 22:37:48 -0400 |
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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.
Robert Love
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