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SubjectRe: Unable to kill processes in D-state
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Thomas Langås <tlan@stud.ntnu.no> writes:

> They won't have any effect on the system, but the load number is
> insane (we have a 2 CPU intel-boks with a load number of 480)
> and there's like 200-300 (or more) processes hanging in D-state
> with they're FD's and stuff.

That in itself could have an effect on the system. Applications such
as sendmail and inn can monitor the load average and enter an
'overload' state (eg refuse connections) if it gets too high.
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