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Subject: Re: Make long ddb not suck
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> one thing it shows now is that there can be many "inhibitors set on a
> thread/process at a time..
> e.g. it can be:
> suspended and sleeping and swapped out.
> 
> presently I enumerate them with [SWP][SLP][SUSP]
> 
> but having a single field
> 
>       S S S L I
>       L W U C W
>       P P S K T wmesg
> ----------------------
> bla   - - 1 - -
>       1 1 1 - - iowait
>       1 1 - - - sbwait
>       - - - 1 - Giant
>       - - - - 1 int2
> 
> 
> or even, in a more compact form:
>       SSSLI
>       LWUCW
>       PPSKT wmesg
> ----------------------
> bla   --S--
>       ZXS-- iowait
>       ZX--- sbwait
>       ---W- Giant
oops
        ---L- Giant

>       ----I int2
> 
> 
> 
> These would take a fixed size
> and would show the combinatorial possibilities..
>