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SubjectRe: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++)
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> The file locking use real IO and so when you ask for a lock, if the loc=
> k is already owned, you fall in a D state.

That seems odd. They should be using interruptible sleeps so you can interrupt
the task waiting for the lock, surely.

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