"sleeping without queue" ?

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 22 15:29:43 UTC 2008


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?

Kris


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