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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state
Date: 05 Oct 2002 22:37:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033871869.1247.4397.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021006021802.GA31878@pegasys.ws>

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 22:18, jw schultz wrote:

> They shouldn't be affecting the load average because they
> aren't on the runqueue.

TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE processes are counted in count_active_tasks() -
because it is assumed they will only sleep a very short while - which is
what is used in the load balance.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-06  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-05  9:07 Unable to kill processes in D-state Thomas Langås
2002-10-05 18:11 ` Robert Love
2002-10-05 18:27   ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-05 23:56     ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06  2:18       ` jw schultz
2002-10-06  2:37         ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-10-06  2:49           ` jw schultz
2002-10-06 10:59             ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 12:24               ` jw schultz
2002-10-06 14:36                 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 16:42                   ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-06 17:09                     ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 17:43                       ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-07 12:24                       ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-16  0:33                         ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 14:30               ` Graham Murray
2002-10-06 14:54                 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 20:26             ` Rik van Riel

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