Re: How to diagnose a process stuck in D state?

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Stephen Oberholtzer
<oliverklozoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> First off: I'm not subscribed to the list (I don't think I could
>  handle the volume), so please make sure you CC me if you reply.
>
>  I run an application on one of my machines; it often hangs, with the
>  process stuck D state.  When this happens, the process sticks around
>  until I reboot the machine.
>

Run "dmesg".  Often when this happens you'll find that the kernel has Oopsed.

Lee
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