Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state
Thomas Langås (tlan@stud.ntnu.no)
Sun, 6 Oct 2002 16:54:50 +0200
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 :)
--
Thomas
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