Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Dec 2007 14:18:25 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [feature] automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks |
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 22:19:25 +0100 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > > > Until now users had little direct recourse to get such problems > > fixed. (we had sysrq-t, but that included no real metric of how > > long a task was > > Actually task delay accounting can measure this now. iirc someone > had a latencytop based on it already.
I have written a latencytop tool, but it's not based quite on the task delay accounting (it doesn't provide the right information to make such a tool). I've not released the tool mostly because I'm not quite happy about the kernel side yet... but if there's real interest I'll fix it up soon and release it.
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