Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state

Thomas Langås (tlan@stud.ntnu.no)
Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:59:17 +0200

jw schultz:
> 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? So in this case the
> load average reported is simply an infated number.

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. There _really_ should be a way
to remove all theese processes, Solaris does this nicely.

-- 
Thomas
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