[PlanetCCRMA] Re: fedora machine load

[Peter Lutek]

fonse006 wrote:

>-SNIP
>processes are on the scheduler's process runnable que.  The problem that you 
>guys are having seems to happen when you have a process that is in D state 
>(interruptible sleep) for a long time. To find out if you have a process in D 
>state try out this command- ps aux | grep " D ".
>

yes, i've read about this possible cause, but i cannot find any process 
in D state. as fernando has suggested, perhaps it's some strange kernel 
issue. since it doesn't seem to actually impair performance, i can live 
with it until another kernel update comes out which i can test.

thanks!

-p