Re: D state after applying ps hang patch

David Ford (david@linux.com)
Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:01:02 -0800


The one LInus posted plus his addendum for the ll_rw_blk.
http://blue-labs.org/patches/ps-hang.patch

-d

Jens Axboe wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 29 2001, David Ford wrote:
> > kernel 2.4.0-ac12
> >
> > # ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail"
> > root 7 [kupdate] get_request_wait
> > david 627 imapd get_request_wait
> > david 752 procmail -f linu down
> > david 761 procmail -f linu down
> > david 799 procmail -f linu down
> > david 854 procmail -f linu down
> > david 886 procmail -f linu down
> > david 847 imapd get_request_wait
> > david 1079 procmail -f linu down
> > david 3280 imapd interruptible_sleep_on_locked
> > david 3321 imapd interruptible_sleep_on_locked
> >
> > and the cpu load is artificially inflated to 9.17
>
> Which patch specifically?

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