[ntp:questions] Ntpd in uninterruptible sleep?

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.invalid
Sun Oct 23 22:08:17 UTC 2011


A C wrote:
> 
> However, I just ran into a new problem.  Here's the output of ps ax for 
> the ntpd entry:
> 
> 22887 ?     Ds     20:17.58 /usr/sbin/ntpd
> 
> 
> Uninterruptible sleep?  The daemon is indeed asleep because it stopped 
> responding to my ntpq queries but this time the system stayed up.  I 

An uninterruptible sleep state isn't something that you can explicitly 
enter from user space.  This suggest a kernel or device driver bug.



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