From: Graham Murray <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 15:30:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ptunej1h.fsf@home.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021006105917.GB13046@stud.ntnu.no> (Thomas Langås's message of "Sun, 6 Oct 2002 12:59:17 +0200")
Thomas Langås <tlan@stud.ntnu.no> writes:
> They won't have any effect on the system, but the load number is
> insane (we have a 2 CPU intel-boks with a load number of 480)
> and there's like 200-300 (or more) processes hanging in D-state
> with they're FD's and stuff.
That in itself could have an effect on the system. Applications such
as sendmail and inn can monitor the load average and enter an
'overload' state (eg refuse connections) if it gets too high.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-06 14:25 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
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 [this message]
2002-10-06 14:54 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 20:26 ` Rik van Riel
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