Re: processes stuck in D state

[Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de>]

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On Tuesday 06 May 2003 19:09, pwitting@Cyveillance.com wrote:
> Actually, I have seen this on the server before, specifically
> When using an older version of IBM's JFS for Linux with RH 7.3

I'm running ext3 on the server.

> I worked with the JFS team and JFS v1.1.0 and kernel 2.4.20
> seemed to stabilize it, at least I've seen no more "freezes"
> as a result.

server-kernel is 2.4.21-pre6.

> Judging by your mail address this might be your
> problem as well.

You refer to the "fs" in my e-mail address? :)
The "fs" stands for "FreeSoftware".

> One noticeable symptom is that cd'ing to an affected dir and
> attempting an ls would also freeze (I had a large (20GB+) file
> copy going, so I usually knew what the affected dir was.
>
> Two other things that helped:
> 1) increasing the # of nfs threads (120 or more)
> 2) ensuring the uid/gid the remote thread was using existed on
> the server. (sounds stupid but it helped)
>
> neither "cured" the issue, but it went from being reproducible
> to being occasional.
>
> Good Luck.

thanks. :)

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Regards Michael B=FCsch
http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft
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