Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:28:54 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: serious MM problem with pre8,9 - vmstat stuck in D state |
| |
Hi,
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:51:04 -0500 (EST), "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:
> Stephen C. Tweedie writes:
>>> Additionally, ps and killall also hang in D state reading from proc. >> >> This is a side-effect of extra locking introduced into procfs to >> safeguard certain operations against memory corruption.
> Could there be a short timeout added? (such as HZ/100 jiffies)
No, that wouldn't help in the slightest.
--Stephen
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |