> 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...
Rik.
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