On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:
> D is a "deadlocked" state that may or may not be permanent. It means
> that the process has entered an uninterruptible sleep. If it is waiting
> on a kernel resource that it will never get access to, then the process
> is forever hung and any resources it holds are ne'er to return to the
> system. Usually, when you get processes in this state and they stay
> there, you have a reboot in your near future to recover. :-)
Since this happens regularly, it's a pretty serious bug. I have to lower
the shades and check for spy cams before rebooting, so that none of the Windows
users who've heard me bragging about Linux find out.
What can I do to help debug this? Or should I take it over to kernel.org?
I think that unkillable processes are a kernel bug regardless of what
application bugs may trigger the problem.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@xxxxxxxx>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"[Microsoft] products are even less buggy than others, in terms of
per capita usage." - Steve Balmer, Microsoft Corporation
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