process in DW state

[Colin Charles]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 00:13 -0500, Joe Szilagyi wrote:

> [root at server root]# ps auxw|grep DW
> root     27576  0.0  0.0  6020    0 ?        DW   Aug07   0:00 [sendmail]
> 
> 
> Trying to do the usual kill -9 27576 fails, and searching for this doesn't
> turn up much concrete yet, except an old Sun users list archive from the
> early 1990s which says:

D = uninterruptable sleep; W = paging (but not in 2.6 though)

Looks like sendmail is waiting for some IO of some sort (which is weird)

Disk(s) where sendmail is writing to could be wonky, possibly?
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