Re: 2.3.12 processes reading proc stuck in D state

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 13:57:03 +0100 (GMT)


On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 craig@zen.co.za wrote:

> Anyone else seen this? When running ps, top etc. the process would
> hang (unkillably) and the load average would go up a notch. Kernel
> 2.3.12 on a (single) Pentium II 350, 64M RAM and a mostly Redhat 5.2
> with bits of RH 6 distribution.

I saw this the other day on 2.3.13pre7, though it was on a machine
which had nearly swapped itself to death so I didn't try to track
it down.

Matthew.

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