On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 18:21, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:25:21PM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
> > :) My bad, I left out an "un". Well spotted. Karma +1.
>
> I was actually referring to the concept of a userland process waiting on
> data from a socket entering 'D' state for an observable period. ;-)
I see it quite a bit. When I come into Uni in the morning and start up
Evolution it spends quite a bit of time in D state as it reads in the
Inbox of NFS and then polls the POP3 server for data. Likewise Galeon
is often bound up in D state as it grabs data from the Web.
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
