[wellylug] ubuntu load average

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 22:54 +1300, Atom Smasher wrote:
> guilty!
>   4873 ?     D    0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
> 
> i can kill that process (i was surprised that it died without a fight, 
> being in "uninterruptible" sleep) and the load average quickly dropped to 
> <0.05. much better.
> 
> i can make the load average climb again by running "/etc/init.d/hal 
> restart".
> 
> i'm familiar with FreeBSD, and hal isn't part of my setup. i'm not even 
> sure if this is a real problem, or something that's ok to ignore. what do 
> ya'll think?

IIRC, hal is used on Linux to detect hardware events such as someone
sticking a CDROM into /dev/scd0.

It should normally be in the standard sleep state state, so I'm not sure
why it's in D state. If you do some research, you might be able to find
it's a known problem or glitch.


-- 
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
www.amberdms.com
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