Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:20:48 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: marking normal sleep identifiers as such. Message-ID: <36655.1055917248@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Now that we have a bunch of kernel threads which participate in the running of the system, I find that it is a tad more time consuming to figure out what the state of a crashed or hung system is. So I was wondering if we should instigate a simple convention for the sleep identifiers to make it easier to spot, or rather: ignore, kthreads which are in their normal idle position. Since thread names are longer than the space we have in ps(1) output using the thread name is not feasible solution. I notice that the interrupt threads all seem to sleep on "-", and all things considered, I like that. Should we adopt that as our convention ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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