[parisc-linux] Uninterruptible sleep

[John David Anglin]

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND

  17958 dave      16   0     0    0    0 D  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 Process_5.exe
  18055 dave      15   0     0    0    0 D  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 Process_6.exe

Anybody got any ideas how processes can end up sleeping forever?  The
above two processes have been sleeping for more than a day.  This is
a 32-bit kernel 2.6.17-rc3-pa3.

Dave
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