How can a process in “interruptible sleep” state use 100% CPU?












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According to this reference, a process has the following states



R  running or runnable (on run queue)
D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
S interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
Z defunct/zombie, terminated but not reaped by its parent
T stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced


In the sleep state, it is not expected that process consumes CPU time, however in the output below, I see that a process is using 100% of cpu and at the same time, it is in S state.



  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
32643 root 20 0 13736 7748 472 R 98 0.0 2:59.30 bzip2
29504 satam 20 0 1063m 779m 3824 S 100 2.4 1242:54 stencil
31923 root 20 0 15092 1224 848 D 14 0.0 1:39.96 find


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    According to this reference, a process has the following states



    R  running or runnable (on run queue)
    D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
    S interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
    Z defunct/zombie, terminated but not reaped by its parent
    T stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced


    In the sleep state, it is not expected that process consumes CPU time, however in the output below, I see that a process is using 100% of cpu and at the same time, it is in S state.



      PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
    32643 root 20 0 13736 7748 472 R 98 0.0 2:59.30 bzip2
    29504 satam 20 0 1063m 779m 3824 S 100 2.4 1242:54 stencil
    31923 root 20 0 15092 1224 848 D 14 0.0 1:39.96 find


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      According to this reference, a process has the following states



      R  running or runnable (on run queue)
      D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
      S interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
      Z defunct/zombie, terminated but not reaped by its parent
      T stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced


      In the sleep state, it is not expected that process consumes CPU time, however in the output below, I see that a process is using 100% of cpu and at the same time, it is in S state.



        PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
      32643 root 20 0 13736 7748 472 R 98 0.0 2:59.30 bzip2
      29504 satam 20 0 1063m 779m 3824 S 100 2.4 1242:54 stencil
      31923 root 20 0 15092 1224 848 D 14 0.0 1:39.96 find


      How that is possible and what does that mean?










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      According to this reference, a process has the following states



      R  running or runnable (on run queue)
      D uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)
      S interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
      Z defunct/zombie, terminated but not reaped by its parent
      T stopped, either by a job control signal or because it is being traced


      In the sleep state, it is not expected that process consumes CPU time, however in the output below, I see that a process is using 100% of cpu and at the same time, it is in S state.



        PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
      32643 root 20 0 13736 7748 472 R 98 0.0 2:59.30 bzip2
      29504 satam 20 0 1063m 779m 3824 S 100 2.4 1242:54 stencil
      31923 root 20 0 15092 1224 848 D 14 0.0 1:39.96 find


      How that is possible and what does that mean?







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          "uninterruptible sleep" means that the process is waiting on I/O (disk operations for example). But given that the CPU is running the process, even though it isn't doing work, the CPU is still "stuck" waiting for it to complete the io, so it can get on with something else - to schedule another task. So this consumes 100% of cycles of the CPU when the process is in D mode.



          So it is in sleep mode, in than that it isn't doing any CPU work, but is uninterruptible which means the CPU can't do anything else.



          In a multi-core system, the other cores are available for other tasks.






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          • Missed it by that much! {/Max Smart Voice} The 'S' (stencil) process, not the 'D' (find). But you're right.

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          "uninterruptible sleep" means that the process is waiting on I/O (disk operations for example). But given that the CPU is running the process, even though it isn't doing work, the CPU is still "stuck" waiting for it to complete the io, so it can get on with something else - to schedule another task. So this consumes 100% of cycles of the CPU when the process is in D mode.



          So it is in sleep mode, in than that it isn't doing any CPU work, but is uninterruptible which means the CPU can't do anything else.



          In a multi-core system, the other cores are available for other tasks.






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          • Missed it by that much! {/Max Smart Voice} The 'S' (stencil) process, not the 'D' (find). But you're right.

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          "uninterruptible sleep" means that the process is waiting on I/O (disk operations for example). But given that the CPU is running the process, even though it isn't doing work, the CPU is still "stuck" waiting for it to complete the io, so it can get on with something else - to schedule another task. So this consumes 100% of cycles of the CPU when the process is in D mode.



          So it is in sleep mode, in than that it isn't doing any CPU work, but is uninterruptible which means the CPU can't do anything else.



          In a multi-core system, the other cores are available for other tasks.






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          "uninterruptible sleep" means that the process is waiting on I/O (disk operations for example). But given that the CPU is running the process, even though it isn't doing work, the CPU is still "stuck" waiting for it to complete the io, so it can get on with something else - to schedule another task. So this consumes 100% of cycles of the CPU when the process is in D mode.



          So it is in sleep mode, in than that it isn't doing any CPU work, but is uninterruptible which means the CPU can't do anything else.



          In a multi-core system, the other cores are available for other tasks.






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          "uninterruptible sleep" means that the process is waiting on I/O (disk operations for example). But given that the CPU is running the process, even though it isn't doing work, the CPU is still "stuck" waiting for it to complete the io, so it can get on with something else - to schedule another task. So this consumes 100% of cycles of the CPU when the process is in D mode.



          So it is in sleep mode, in than that it isn't doing any CPU work, but is uninterruptible which means the CPU can't do anything else.



          In a multi-core system, the other cores are available for other tasks.







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          • Missed it by that much! {/Max Smart Voice} The 'S' (stencil) process, not the 'D' (find). But you're right.

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          Missed it by that much! {/Max Smart Voice} The 'S' (stencil) process, not the 'D' (find). But you're right.

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