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@ 2016-02-05 18:35 Harish
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From: Harish @ 2016-02-05 18:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,


    I see this(sleep_on_buffer) in the /proc/<pid>/wchan for a process, could some one help me understand what does this exactly mean? Around this time the thread was actually trying write to the console. The status of the process from /proc says "Disk Sleeping" 

   
Thanks,
Harish

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