From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <839c4573978f1732e636f7651c96eb78@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 05:06:11 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] closeproc slow Topicbox-Message-UUID: 86c71c98-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i killed off some webfs processes that were lingering. it took the kernel about 5 second per process to reap them on an otherwise- unloaded system: ; while(sleep 5) ps|grep closeproc|wc 36 252 2304 35 245 2240 34 238 2176 33 231 2112 [...] either all of these processes are in state Queueing or all but one are in state Queueing and the last is in state Wakeme. so the (probablly useless) question is why does this take so long? - erik