From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 19:27:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 19:27:45 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([12.44.186.158]:58614 "EHLO av.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 May 2002 19:27:44 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD9B44F.4A023A70@mvista.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 16:27:11 -0700 From: george anzinger Organization: Monta Vista Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20b i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philippe Troin CC: vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, Amol Lad , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kill task in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE In-Reply-To: <20020508140124.79124.qmail@web12408.mail.yahoo.com> <200205081519.g48FJEX24062@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <87znzawpk9.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Philippe Troin wrote: > > Denis Vlasenko 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