Peter Steiner <p.steiner@t-online.de> wrote:
>Sometimes acces to /proc/<pid> blocks. In such a case the system load is
>increased by 1. It seems the blocking occurs, when a normal process is stuck
>in L-TLB, e.g.:
>...
This still happens in 2.3.99-pre3. mgetty waiting on a serial line
sometimes gets sleeps in L-TLB state and blocks access to
/proc/<pidofmgetty>/<anyofthesefiles>. It unblocks as soon as
something is connected to that serial port (and thus waking up mgetty)
or if mgetty is killed.
Peter
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