`D' ってなんだっけ、と思って少し調べた。
ps(1)
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ps
PROCESS STATE CODES
Here are the different values that the s, stat and state output
specifiers (header "STAT" or "S") will display to describe the state of
a process.
D Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
R Running or runnable (on run queue)
S Interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
T Stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being
traced.
W paging (not valid since the 2.6.xx kernel)
X dead (should never be seen)
Z Defunct ("zombie") process, terminated but not reaped by its
parent.For BSD formats and when the stat keyword is used, additional
characters may be displayed:
< high-priority (not nice to other users)
N low-priority (nice to other users)
L has pages locked into memory (for real-time and custom IO)
s is a session leader
l is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do)
+ is in the foreground process group
top(1)
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?top
w: S -- Process Status
The status of the task which can be one of:
'D' = uninterruptible sleep
'R' = running
'S' = sleeping
'T' = traced or stopped
'Z' = zombieTasks shown as running should be more properly thought of as 'ready
to run' -- their task_struct is simply represented on the Linux
run-queue. Even without a true SMP machine, you may see numerous
tasks in this state depending on top's delay interval and nice
value.
`D' は割り込み不可で典型的には I/O 待ち、らしい Processes in an Uninterruptible Sleep (D) State ディスク読み書き要求が多すぎるとか、スワップしてるとか、ネットワーク経由で読み書きしててリモートが遅いとか。
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