Re: 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state

Nate Eldredge (neldredge@hmc.edu)
Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:33:21 -0800


Nate Eldredge writes:
> Kernel 2.4.2-ac3.
>
> FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND
> 40 0 425 1 -1 -20 0 0 down DW< ? 0:00 (loop0)

It looks like this has been addressed in the thread "242-ac3 loop
bug". Jens Axboe posted a patch, but the list archive I'm reading
mangled it. Jens, could you make this patch available somewhere, or
at least email me a copy? (If it's going in an upcoming -ac patch,
then don't bother; I can wait until then.)

Thanks.

> From a look at the source it seems that this may be normal behavior
> (though I'm not sure). However, it's still cosmetically annoying,
> because it throws off the load average (a D state process is counted
> as "running" for the loadavg calculation).
>
> My loopback-mounted fs seems to be working fine, nevertheless, which
> is a nice change from previous kernels.

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