[REAL pre8] Why is 'wchan' always empty?

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@ucsd.edu)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:24:14 -0800

Hi,
I noticed that, beginning with the first testing/pre-8, no processes
are recorded as being stopped in any kernel function (e.g. the 'wchan'
field is empty). In pre-7, all processes that are in 'S' state have a
'wchan' entry.

'wchan'
nanosleep about 6
read_chan about 7 (lots of getty)
select about 14

some random other functions are

bdflush,exit, inet_wait_for_connect,kswapd, pipe_read, syslog, wait4.

Any idea what might have changed this?
-benRI

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