"sleeping without queue" ?

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 22 16:45:01 UTC 2008


Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:13:25PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway ???????(??):
>>> Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> My attempt to build openoffice.org-3 seems to be hanging. Pressing  
>>>> Ctrl-T produces:
>>>>
>>>>    load: 0.11  cmd: tcsh 79759 [sleeping without queue] 0.00u 0.00s  
>>>> 0% 0k
>>>>
>>>> (tcsh is used by OOo's build-script). What is this "sleeping without  
>>>> queue" state, and why is process in it for so long?
>>>>
>>>> This is an 4-CPU amd64 system with 4Gb of RAM. Only 16% of the swap  
>>>> is currently in use and the box seems to be perfectly fine otherwise. 
>>>> Uptime is 55 days, two different X-sessions are functional... The  
>>>> kernel is FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sat Mar  8 16:02:37.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>> What is the process backtrace?
>> Hard to say... The process ID 79759. According to ps(1), that PID exists:
>> 79759  p6  DE+    0:00,00 /bin/tcsh -fc  
>> /meow/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/BEB300_m3/solver/300/unxfbsdx.pro/bin/makedepend 
>> @/tmp/mk2WUYYi > ../../../unxfbsdx.pro/misc/s_addincol.dpcc
>> According to gdb, it does not:
>> gdb 79759
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>> This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...79759: No such file  
>> or directory.
> 
> Syntax appears wrong; "gdb [program] 79759" would be what you want.
> 

Well, I mean kernel backtrace.

Kris


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