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

[christophe barbe]

The sleep should certainly be interruptible and I that's what I said to the GFS guy.
But what the reason to increment the load average for each D process ?

Thanks,
Christophe

On mer, 04 avr 2001 13:15:52 Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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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