Hallo, hibernating my ThinkPad T41 yesterday evening and waking it up today in the morning I got some minutes later this in my syslog: Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 INFO: task sadc:1148 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 sadc D 00000282 0 1148 1147 Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 c6403edc 00000082 c6403edc 00000282 f7f44800 003b1696 f7f44840 c6403edc Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 c01ad66c 00000000 00000000 ce2cc7d0 c0129380 f7f44840 f5cc7ee8 003b1696 Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 f771e440 d3ed52e8 f7f44800 c01a9928 00000000 00000000 00000007 f78c225c Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 Call Trace: Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 [] log_wait_commit+0x9c/0x100 Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50 Nov 1 10:43:19 n22 [] journal_stop+0xb8/0x170 Nov 1 10:43:20 n22 [] __writeback_single_inode+0x213/0x2e0 Nov 1 10:43:20 n22 [] generic_writepages+0x20/0x30 Nov 1 10:43:20 n22 [] __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x72/0x90 Nov 1 10:43:20 n22 [] ext3_sync_file+0x8c/0xa0 Nov 1 10:43:20 n22 [] do_fsync+0x6e/0xb0 Nov 1 10:43:20 n22 [] __do_fsync+0x25/0x40 Nov 1 10:43:20 n22 [] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x85 Nov 1 10:43:20 n22 ======================= Here are the cron jobs for the installed Gentoo package app-admin/sysstat-8.0.4.1 : n22 ~ # uname -a Linux n22 2.6.25.19 #1 Thu Oct 23 10:35:34 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux n22 ~ # cat /etc/cron.d/sysstat */5 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 60 5 n22 ~ # cat /etc/cron.hourly/sysstat #!/bin/sh /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A -- MfG/Sincerely Toralf Förster pgp finger print: 7B1A 07F4 EC82 0F90 D4C2 8936 872A E508 7DB6 9DA3