Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:54:50 +0200 | From | Thomas Langås <> | Subject | Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state |
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Graham Murray: > > 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.
Good point, didn't think of that :)
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