Subject: Re: Some more 'D' evidence.
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/09/1996 00:56:02
All cases that I know of so far, involve a vnode that's being flushed out
to disk after going "inactive". The process in state `D' is waiting
in vflushbuf(). Obviously, there's a race somewhere for the buffers that
were (once) associated with the vnode in question.

-pk