Re: uninteruptable sleep

J Sloan
2001-04-03T18:05:59Z

Trevor Nichols wrote:

> > Its a kernel bug if it gets stuck like this. You need to provide more info
> > though - what file system, what devices, how much memory. Also ps can give you
> > the wait address of a process stuck in 'D' state which is valuable for debug
>
> ps xl:
> F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
> 040 1000 1230 1 9 0 24320 4 down_w D ? 0:00 /home/data/mozilla/obj/dist/bin/mozi
>
> [I'm not exactly sure how to get the wait address if it isn't shown above]
>

Try this:

ps -eo pid,stat,pcpu,nwchan,wchan=WIDE-WCHAN-COLUMN -o args

cu

Jup