> 65961,9> ps axuf | grep D
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root        35  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Aug16   0:00  \_ [DWC 
> Notificatio]
> root         1  0.0  0.8   5636  3664 ?        Ds   Aug16   0:20 /sbin/init
> ...
> 
> Congratulations Poettering.
> 
> Writing an init that gets stuck in the D state is a feat of magnificent
> incompetence.  Tentacling it so badly into the rest of the system that the
> system can't proceed out of this state is just fantastic.
> 

Sorry... what?

Unless I'm missing context somewhere, that's an awful lot of conclusions to 
draw from one output of ps. In most of the cases I've experienced, a process 
stuck in the D state is normally a result of extreme system load, a driver 
fault, or a hardware fault (like a failing disk).

James

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