Matt Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, can someone explain what is meant by the following?
>
> Nickolai Zeldovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, this has the side effect of artificially increasing the
> > system load to ~4 when AFS is idle, because the background daemons
> > block waiting for requests.
>
> Is Nickolai is right on this one? Tasks with a state of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
> do not appear to increase the system load. If they did, you'd already see an
> increase of 4 as the daemon syscalls currently spend most of their time in
> interruptable_sleep_on() (even without Nickolai's patch). Basically, I don't
> see how Nickolai's patch would change system load.
This was in reference to using a non-interruptible sleep, which does
have the affect of increasing the load.
-derek
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