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From: J Sloan <jjs@toyota.com>
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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

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