Re: uninterruptible sleep

Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> michael.mcgarry@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I have a process that goes into uninterruptible sleep state 'D'. I do
>> not understand what this means.
>
>
> It means your hardware is broken. The process is in kernel waiting for
> i/o to some peripheral to return with an ack, and it isn't.
>
>> I would be very grateful if someone
>> could explain this process state. This may help me figure out my
>> problem.
>
> Google!
>
> Peter


Google is right ... what does Pete always say "Google is your friend" ?

Anyway, if you are using a Firewire drive that is one of the things you
might find "breaks" the sleep. The Firewire drive will wait forever to
ramp up to speed if it gets a sleep signal and vice versa. I found this
out the hard way with my 3 200 GB firewire drives. Now I just let them run
continuously.

HTH, YMMV, LSMFT

Dave


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