[Gllug] load monitors

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Sat Mar 15 20:48:25 UTC 2003


On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Richard W. M. Jones stated:
> If your processes are remaining in the D state forever then you've
> probably got faulty hardware or you're using an experimental kernel
> feature. Either way it's trouble.

You sometimes get things sitting in D state for ages even if both the
hardware and drivers are fine. The usb-storage thread on a box with USB
1.1 will often sit in D state for forty seconds or so while the USB
controller socks data up the line...

-- 
#ifdef USE_ISPTS_FLAG
		} else {	/* else pty, not pts */
#endif

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