On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Omer Zak wrote:
> Why then there is such a thing as "uninterruptible sleep" in Unix/Linux?
> What useful purpose (besides full Posix conformance) does this serve?
cause in some situations, you cannot afford to be interrupted. for
example, when you have a mutex you own, and
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002, Omer Zak wrote about "Why do we need uninterruptible sleep?
(was: Re: killing "uninterruptible sleep" process)":
> Why then there is such a thing as "uninterruptible sleep" in Unix/Linux?
> What useful purpose (besides full Posix confor
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote:
> I logged in to one of my servers today and noticed that the load average is
> very high. After investigating the problem I found two processes in "D" stat
> ("uninterruptible sleep"):
>
> root 24344 0.0 0.2 1532 584 ?DN Jul21 0:01
> /u
Hi
I logged in to one of my servers today and noticed that the load average is
very high. After investigating the problem I found two processes in "D" stat
("uninterruptible sleep"):
root 24344 0.0 0.2 1532 584 ?DN Jul21 0:01
/usr/bin/updatedb -f NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,PROC,DEVPTS -
