On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:35:00PM +0800, Aris Santillan wrote: > Some of My httpd process stats indicates the 'D' STAT? which eats up a > lot of memory / cpu resouces. is this normal?
Like the process state codes list in the ps manual page says, state D means the process is in an uninterruptible sleep, usually because of IO. This is normal for most processes as they flush certain things out onto disk, for example, but unless expectedly doing heavy IO should only be in state D for awhile, after which they should go back to either the S or R states. A process stuck in state D for extended periods can be bad news, as I have noticed when on a machine with bad RAM. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
