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Subject: Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++)
To: christophe.barbe@lineo.fr (christophe barbe)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 13:53:34 +0100 (BST)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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> The sleep should certainly be interruptible and I that's what I said to t=
> he GFS guy.
> But what the reason to increment the load average for each D process ?

D indicates short term I/O wait. This is how unix has always computed the
laod average.

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