From: "Thomas Langås" <tlan@stud.ntnu.no>
To: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 01:56:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021005235614.GC25827@stud.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021005182740.GC16200@vagabond>
Jan Hudec:
> On the other hand it's a bug if a process stays in D-state for time of
> order of seconds or more. Unfortunately it's impossible to avoid this
> in networking filesystems with current state of VFS (in 2.4). Even there
> though, it's a bug if it's indefinite.
Well, it's NFS-related (we use autofs to mount our nfs-shares), and the
processes are staying forever when they have gotten to the D-state.
> These problems were already discussed on LKML, you might want to search
> the archive. IIRC this is a known problem of OpenAFS (not in standart
> kernel). It was reported with various drivers for some 2.4.x kernels
> too.
As you see, we've got this problem with NFS as the filesystem, and
the processes won't die or return, they just hang there setting
the load-number up in the roof.
--
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-06 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
2002-10-07 12:24 ` Denis Vlasenko
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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