Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:26:02 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state |
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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,
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