Re: 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state

[Nate Eldredge]

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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