Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.12-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
Running ps ax with a recent kernel shows a lot of kernel threads in the I (idle) state. This state is not doumented in the man page of ps. (This does not seem to happen with the 4.9 kernel currently running on this box, but it does with a 4.14 kernel. The I state was introduced in linux 4.2 however, so it presumably can exist on a stretch system even if it is not common.) Further information about the Idle state can be found at https://www.quora.com/What-does-mean-Linux-process-state-I-in-the-top-output Thanks, Alex -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages procps depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.48 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libncurses5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 ii libprocps6 2:3.3.12-3 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 ii lsb-base 9.20161125 Versions of packages procps recommends: pn psmisc <none> procps suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
