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SubjectRe: Unable to kill processes in D-state
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, jw schultz wrote:

> > 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?

Ummm, if your X server and window manager are in D state,
that has as big an effect on system performance as you can
imagine...

> So in this case the load average reported is simply an infated number.

Not really, IO wait is often a much larger slowdown factor
than CPU occupancy.

regards,

Rik
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