Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:20:04 +0100 (IST) | From | Paul Jakma <> | Subject | Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++) |
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, christophe barbe wrote:
> The sleep should certainly be interruptible and I that's what I > said to the GFS guy. But what the reason to increment the load > average for each D process ?
from a philosical POV: they are processes that will be runnable as soon as the kernel returns to them.
no idea if there are technical reasons for it.
> > Thanks, > Christophe
--paulj
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