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From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Cc: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, Amol Lad <dal_loma@yahoo.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kill task in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 16:27:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD9B44F.4A023A70@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020508140124.79124.qmail@web12408.mail.yahoo.com> <200205081519.g48FJEX24062@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <87znzawpk9.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org>

Philippe Troin wrote:
> 
> Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> writes:
> 
> > On 8 May 2002 12:01, Amol Lad wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >  Is there any way i can kill a task in
> > > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE state ?
> >
> > No. Everytime you see hung task in this state
> > you see kernel bug.
> >
> > Somebody correct me if I am wrong.
> 
> Except for processes accessing NFS files while the NFS server is down:
> they will be stuck in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE until the NFS server comes
> back up again.

A REALLY good argument for puting timeouts on your NSF mounts!  Don't
leave home without them.

-g

-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/
Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-08 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-08 14:01 kill task in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE Amol Lad
2002-05-08 20:23 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-08 16:43   ` Robert Love
2002-05-08 16:51   ` Philippe Troin
2002-05-08 23:27     ` george anzinger [this message]
2002-05-08 23:49       ` Roman Zippel
2002-05-10 20:47         ` Jan Hudec
2002-05-09 15:18       ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-09 17:39         ` Andrew Theurer
2002-05-08 18:33   ` Alan Cox
2002-05-09  9:47     ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-09 15:21     ` Denis Vlasenko
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-09 18:00 Kerl, John

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