From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] Re: dd-induced hangs Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:18:54 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ed5b0326-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 the load jumped to 6, not 8 thousand. the reason was that the ready queue at this time had 6 processes waiting in it -- they piled up immediately after 'the event'... see, i'm reading it and almost understanding it :) the biggest almost in the world ;)