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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:35:34 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.18 : lots of "state D" processes ....
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:03:49AM +0200, Teodor Iacob wrote:
> > Ok, I rushed to reply but it seems like I still get the perl process in a
> > "D state", no matter if I compile USB as module or built-in, with rmap12g
> > or with your patch. Anyway to track this?
>
> SYSRQ+T run on top of 2.4.19pre1aa1 should allow to track down whatever
> USB problem it is.

I've seen this in 2.4.19-pre1 without USB, too.  Here the
tasks were stuck in do_fork() and got unstuck minutes
later.  They were not using any CPU time.

I'm not seeing any of these delays in -pre2 (yet?) and
haven't had any time yet to figure out what's going on...

regards,

Rik
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