Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 16:14:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 16:14:36 -0500 Received: from mercury.ST.HMC.Edu ([134.173.57.219]:3332 "HELO mercury.st.hmc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 16:14:18 -0500 From: Nate Eldredge MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15000.9242.867644.29523@mercury.st.hmc.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:14:02 -0800 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under Emacs 20.5.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kernel 2.4.2-ac3. FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND 40 0 425 1 -1 -20 0 0 down DW< ? 0:00 (loop0) >From a look at the source it seems that this may be normal behavior (though I'm not sure). However, it's still cosmetically annoying, because it throws off the load average (a D state process is counted as "running" for the loadavg calculation). My loopback-mounted fs seems to be working fine, nevertheless, which is a nice change from previous kernels. -- Nate Eldredge neldredge@hmc.edu - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/