Ulrich, Unfortunately, a "ps ax" shows up only "S/SW/SWN/SL" and the ps command as "R." No "D" states.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Ulrich Weigand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.19 Kernel loadavg Mark Post wrote: >Since I upgraded to the 2.4.19 kernel, I've noticed that my loadavg is >always 1.00 or higher, never lower, even when idling. I'm presuming this is >a bug of some sort. I seem to recall we've fixed this already but I can't remember the details :-( Could you check, when the machine is idle, whether there is one process (presumably a kernel thread) that sleeps uninterruptibly (i.e. state D) instead of interruptibly (i.e. state S)? If so, that's the cause of load 1, because D is counted towards the load. Once the thread is identified, we'll need to fix the corresponding code to use interruptible sleep instead. Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
