From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Thu 15 Apr 1999 - 12:25:52 IST
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.
-- ------------ David Airlie, David.Airlie at domain ul.ie,airlied at domain skynet -------- Telecommunications Research Centre, ECE Dept, University of Limerick \ http://www.csn.ul.ie/~airlied -- Telecommunications Researcher \ --- TEL: +353-61-202695 ----------------------------------------------- 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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