Topic: cron jobs hanging with status "D-uninterruptible sleep&

[Todd Pearsall]

I doubt this is anything SME specific, but I thought I'd tap the Linux minds here...

I can't figure out if it's something I did or a possible disk problem, but most of my cron jobs are hanging with a status of "D-uninterruptible sleep".  When it's in this state commands such as "ls" hang the terminal session.  I ran a fsck on reboot and everything came back clean and a reboot seems to clear the problem for a day or so.

Based on the behavior I'm assuming it's one of the cron jobs that is somehow hanging up the rest behind it.  My next step is start disabling some of the jobs and see if I can track it down to a specific one.  Unfortunately, if been tweaking a bunch of staff  lately so there is no clear suspect.

Does my thinking make sense or should I be trying something else?

Thanks,
Todd

[Kelvin]

Perhaps check your PC's power management settings in BIOS ? You could try disabling them all (if it is currently on) to see if the problem would clear up.

Kelvin