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Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 19:49:02 -0700
From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
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Subject: Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state
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On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 10:37:48PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> 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.

I stand corrected.  The load average reported will reflect
them.  The D-state processes, however, will have nearly zero
effect on the system performance, yes?  So in this case the
load average reported is simply an infated number.

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