D state after applying ps hang patch

David Ford
2001-01-29T00:18:19Z

kernel 2.4.0-ac12

# ps -eo user,pid,args,wchan|egrep "imap|update|procmail"
root 7 [kupdate] get_request_wait
david 627 imapd get_request_wait
david 752 procmail -f linu down
david 761 procmail -f linu down
david 799 procmail -f linu down
david 854 procmail -f linu down
david 886 procmail -f linu down
david 847 imapd get_request_wait
david 1079 procmail -f linu down
david 3280 imapd interruptible_sleep_on_locked
david 3321 imapd interruptible_sleep_on_locked

and the cpu load is artificially inflated to 9.17

-d

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