Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 1998 18:17:21 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Uninterruptable sleep D state (was Re: Unkillable rm -rf on 2.1.86) |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, F Harvell wrote:
> Questions for anyone else experiencing processes getting stuck in > the D (uninterruptible sleep) state: > > a) Is your system SCSI only? What controller/driver? > b) Is your system drive IDE? Do you have any SCSI devices?
SCSI + IDE, Advansys ABP940U controller.
> c) Are you using md? What modes? > d) Do you have more than one swap partition? Is it equal priority?
Linear /usr/local, two swap partitions of equal priority.
> e) What process(es) do you see hanging?
I've seen just about anything hang, but the problem completely disappeared with .85 _and_ the disabling of the read-cache on my SCSI disk...
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