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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:53:34 +0100 (BST)

> The sleep should certainly be interruptible and I that's what I said to t=
> he GFS guy.
> But what the reason to increment the load average for each D process ?

D indicates short term I/O wait. This is how unix has always computed the
laod average.

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