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Re: high load average



on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:12:16PM -0500, MaD dUCK (madduck@madduck.net) wrote:
> [cc'ing this to PLUG because it seems interesting...]
> 
> also sprach kmself@ix.netcom.com (on Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:02:51PM -0800):
> > It's not 200% loaded.  There are two processes in the run queue.  I'd do
> 
> huh? is that what 2.00 means? the average length of the run queue?

Yep.

> that would explain it because i found two STAT = D processes which i
> cannot kill (any hints what to do when kill -9 doesn't work and the
> /proc/`pidof` directory cannot be removed?). that's why 2.00.

Find their parents and kill them.  Easiest way IMO is to use pstree:

    $ pstree -p

...search for the PIDs of the defunct processes, locate parent(s), kill
same.  Report back if problems.

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