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SubjectRe: 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

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