From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: harish.b310@gmail.com (Harish)
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 00:05:19 +0530
Subject: Sleep_on_buffer
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To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
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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