Please stop apps going into state D uninterrupted sleep !!

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:09:31 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> I think it was Lamport
> who said that you can't tell 'down' from 'disconnected' (did the remote
> server crash, or is there a network disconnection? maybe the network is
> just congested, there's no way to tell).

I can tell: If I've been getting responses in under 20 ms and now I
haven't gotten a response in 2 minutes, then the dadgum thing
is down :-).