Re: 'D' processes on a healthy system?

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 12:40, martin f krafft wrote:
> [please CC me on replies]
> 19268 madduck   18   0  2208 2208  1076 D     1.3  0.4   0:00 sanitizer
>     6 root       9   0     0    0     0 DW    0.3  0.0   1:10 kupdated
>  8457 root      10   0  1156 1156   820 R     0.3  0.2   0:02 top
> 10843 postfix    9   0  1364 1364  1016 D     0.3  0.2   0:00 cleanup
>  3156 madduck    0   0   636  636   540 D     0.1  0.1   0:00 procmail
> 28356 root       9   0   292  288   240 R     0.0  0.0   0:01 supervise
> 28706 root       9   0  2060 2036  1724 D     0.0  0.4   0:00 sshd
> 21395 root      15   0  1944 1944  1876 D     0.0  0.3   0:00 zsh
> 
> notice the number of processes in       ^
> uninterruptible sleep mode in this column.

Your disk is too slow for the work being asked of it, thats all.
Eventually it'll get there

> My laptop, which is running Debian testing/unstable is not showing
> this behaviour, and its load goes far higher at times. I also run
> various other servers, partially on P5-120 systems, vanilla 2.4.xx
> kernels and Debian testing, and there are no such problems there.

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