At Wed, 30 Jun 04, Unidentified Flying Banana Tom Lane, said:
> Christopher Cashell <topher-pgsql@zyp.org> writes:
> > 28424 postgres 18 0 16804 3044 15m D 0.0 1.6 0:06.72 postmaster
>
> > Note that it does have a process status of 'D', or uninterruptible
> > sleep. That would explain the unkillable part, though I'm curious how
> > it ended up there.
>
> Perhaps I'm just of an older generation, but I always thought 'D' meant
> "disk I/O wait". Which definitely is uninterruptible on most Unixen.
I've always heard it as 'uninteruptable sleep', which I understood to be
the generic term description, and that 'disk I/O wait' is the most
common cause for it (but not the only possible cause).
Either way, I think you're right, and I think that is what happened
here.
> regards, tom lane
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