Re: process status as 'D' in ps output

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM, yogeshwar sonawane <yogyas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am running one parallel program over network. But in meantime,
> sometimes some processes on some nodes gets stuck & then show status
> as 'D' is ps -aex output.
> I am not able to kill that process. I need to reboot the node. i
> searched in books & net, that such state is uninterruptible
> sleep/waiting state.
>
> What can be the reason for going into such state ? Whether any I/O
> activity will be the cause for this ?
> Can somebody give more info about this ?

most likely, because when that process dives into kernel space, it
issues codes that execute sleep_uninterruptible(). And, as you could
probably guess, waiting for I/O event (in some cases, not necessarily
in all case) is an example of uninterruptible event.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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