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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