Subject: process in 'D' state
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Pramod Srinivasan <pramod@redback.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/20/2001 16:58:55
Hi,

I have a process which does not repond to any signals and is in a 'D'
state. This generally happens when 'myprocess' tries to ftp files from a

host and the host is running low on memory, but I am not sure of the
reason.

Can some one help me in isolating the problem and help me fixing it.

# ps -axl
  UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT TT       TIME
COMMAND
    0     0     0   0 -18  0     0 15180 schedu DLs  ??    0:00.04
(swapper)
    0     2     0   0 -18  0     0 15180 daemon DL   ??    0:00.02
(pagedaemon)
    0     3     0   0 -18  0     0 15180 reaper DL   ??    0:00.02
(reaper)
    0    53    45   0   2  0   888  588 netio  D    00    0:02.05
myprocess

There are a bunch of other process which has been omitted.

Thanks,
--Pramod