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Subject: Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
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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

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