Re: 'D' processes on a healthy system?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
19 Dec 2002 17:43:52 +0000


On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 12:40, martin f krafft wrote:
> [please CC me on replies]
> 19268 madduck 18 0 2208 2208 1076 D 1.3 0.4 0:00 sanitizer
> 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 DW 0.3 0.0 1:10 kupdated
> 8457 root 10 0 1156 1156 820 R 0.3 0.2 0:02 top
> 10843 postfix 9 0 1364 1364 1016 D 0.3 0.2 0:00 cleanup
> 3156 madduck 0 0 636 636 540 D 0.1 0.1 0:00 procmail
> 28356 root 9 0 292 288 240 R 0.0 0.0 0:01 supervise
> 28706 root 9 0 2060 2036 1724 D 0.0 0.4 0:00 sshd
> 21395 root 15 0 1944 1944 1876 D 0.0 0.3 0:00 zsh
>
> notice the number of processes in ^
> uninterruptible sleep mode in this column.

Your disk is too slow for the work being asked of it, thats all.
Eventually it'll get there

> My laptop, which is running Debian testing/unstable is not showing
> this behaviour, and its load goes far higher at times. I also run
> various other servers, partially on P5-120 systems, vanilla 2.4.xx
> kernels and Debian testing, and there are no such problems there.

sendmail tuning ?

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