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From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@hmc.edu>
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Subject: 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state
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Kernel 2.4.2-ac3.

 FLAGS   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI   SIZE   RSS WCHAN       STA TTY TIME COMMAND
    40     0   425     1  -1 -20      0     0 down        DW< ?   0:00 (loop0)

>>From a look at the source it seems that this may be normal behavior
(though I'm not sure).  However, it's still cosmetically annoying,
because it throws off the load average (a D state process is counted
as "running" for the loadavg calculation).

My loopback-mounted fs seems to be working fine, nevertheless, which
is a nice change from previous kernels.

-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge@hmc.edu