Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:15:52 +0100 (BST)

> The file locking use real IO and so when you ask for a lock, if the loc=
> k is already owned, you fall in a D state.

That seems odd. They should be using interruptible sleeps so you can interrupt
the task waiting for the lock, surely.

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