Well on Linux if a process is in the D state i.e. uninterruptible sleep
usually stuck in the kernel, it is considered running, so you can have a
load average of 100 and nothing actually running all blocked on a device
or something like that .. even under Linux..
Dave.
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On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Niall Richard Murphy wrote:
>> >My best is recovering a box from ~200 (well 199.something). Couple of
> >processes barfed due to the load (MTA packed it in, etc..) but otherwise
> >was fine.
>> "Load" is a pretty artificial measure, unfortunately.
>> Was it SunOS that used to count blocked/waiting processes as adding
> to the load, so you could create lots of processes waiting on some IO
> that would never materialise, and inflate it that way...
>> NRM
>>
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