Re: serious MM problem with pre8,9 - vmstat stuck in D state

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:32:14 GMT


Hi,

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 18:33:05 -0500 (EST), David Mansfield
<david@cobite.com> said:

> Additionally, ps and killall also hang in D state reading from proc.

This is a side-effect of extra locking introduced into procfs to
safeguard certain operations against memory corruption.

--Stephen

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