Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:33:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:33:34 -0500 Received: from mercury.ST.HMC.Edu ([134.173.57.219]:8710 "HELO mercury.st.hmc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:33:28 -0500 From: Nate Eldredge MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15001.34865.543658.820963@mercury.st.hmc.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:33:21 -0800 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state In-Reply-To: <15000.9242.867644.29523@mercury.st.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <15000.9242.867644.29523@mercury.st.hmc.edu> 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 Nate Eldredge writes: > 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) It looks like this has been addressed in the thread "242-ac3 loop bug". Jens Axboe posted a patch, but the list archive I'm reading mangled it. Jens, could you make this patch available somewhere, or at least email me a copy? (If it's going in an upcoming -ac patch, then don't bother; I can wait until then.) Thanks. > 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/