Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:14:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:14:23 -0400 Received: from p18-max2.adl.ihug.com.au ([203.173.184.210]:3857 "EHLO ocdi.sb101.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:14:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 01:43:15 +0930 (CST) From: Trevor Nichols X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: uninteruptable sleep In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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 System specs: Pentium 200 MMX 80MB RAM 2 IDE Drives: SAMSUNG SV0844D 8.4GB WDC AC21200H 1.2GB All partitions are ext2 filesytems. 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] Other stuff: Creative SB AWE64 PnP 16MB Voodoo 3 2000 and a 2MB S3 Virge display RealTek RTL-8029 NIC Sony CRX100E Burner I'm running X in a dual-head configuration using the above 2 cards. That's all I can think of at this time. Thanks, Trevor Nichols. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/