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* Unable to kill processes in D-state
@ 2002-10-05  9:07 Thomas Langås
  2002-10-05 18:11 ` Robert Love
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 21+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Langås @ 2002-10-05  9:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi!

We have a fairly large installation on-campus, and we have some problems
with the current linux-kernel (and older ones) - namely that processes
entering D-state will stay there forever (given that the right event got
them there in the first place).  This right event is killing the 
autofs-daemon.  Doing this will result in heavy load because of lots
of D-state processes, and you can't kill any of the D-state processes.
Why shouldn't one be able to kill processes that has entered D-state?
We have to reboot our servers to get rid of this problem, and it's
rather annoying.

-- 
Thomas

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* Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state
@ 2002-10-06 19:50 Jeremy Sanders
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Sanders @ 2002-10-06 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: nfs, Thomas Langås

This sounds a similar problem (well it has similar symptoms) to what we
had with RedHat's kernel for (null) and their rawhide kernel. I think this
turned out to be an ext3 interaction bug.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70561

(also try ctrl+scrolllock to get a trace of the nfsds on your system).
This will provide useful info over where it is stuck.

Jeremy

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Thread overview: 21+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
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2002-10-05  9:07 Unable to kill processes in D-state Thomas Langås
2002-10-05 18:11 ` Robert Love
2002-10-05 18:27   ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-05 23:56     ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06  2:18       ` jw schultz
2002-10-06  2:37         ` Robert Love
2002-10-06  2:49           ` jw schultz
2002-10-06 10:59             ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 12:24               ` jw schultz
2002-10-06 14:36                 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 16:42                   ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-06 17:09                     ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 17:43                       ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-06 17:43                         ` Jan Hudec
2002-10-07 12:24                       ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-16  0:33                         ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-16  0:33                           ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 14:30               ` Graham Murray
2002-10-06 14:54                 ` Thomas Langås
2002-10-06 20:26             ` Rik van Riel
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2002-10-06 19:50 Jeremy Sanders

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