From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262362AbTEEPN4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 11:13:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262407AbTEEPN4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 11:13:56 -0400 Received: from CPE0010e000064f-CM014270111571.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([65.49.101.0]:60742 "EHLO bunny.augustahouse.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262362AbTEEPNx convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 11:13:53 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 11:24:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Waychison X-X-Sender: To: Michael Buesch cc: Zeev Fisher , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: processes stuck in D state In-Reply-To: <200305051656.32048.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 5 May 2003, Michael Buesch wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 05 May 2003 07:52, Zeev Fisher wrote: > > Hi! > > Hi Zeev! > > > I got a continuos problem of unkillable processes stuck in D state ( > > uninterruptable sleep ) on my Linux servers. > > It happens randomly every time on other server on another process ( all > > the servers are configured the same with 2.4.18-10 kernel ). Here's an > > example : > [snip] > > Has anyone noticed the same behavior ? Is this a well known problem ? > > I've had the same problem with some 2.4.21-preX twice (or maybe more times, > don't remember) on one of my machines. > IMHO it has something to do with NFS. (I'm using this box as a NFS-client). > I wish, I could reproduce it one more time, to do some traces, etc > on it. But I've not found a way to reproduce it, yet. > This happens when you mount an NFS mount with the 'hard' option (default) and a mount's handle expires incorrectly (eg: server crash). Read the mount manpage for an explanation to the downsides of using the 'soft' option. Mike Waychison > - -- > Regards Michael Büsch > http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft > 16:50:44 up 52 min, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 0.94 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+tnugoxoigfggmSgRAt8BAJ0deufnL/E6acpz4pIPZll8f48TIgCfWmcI > auSRmi6oyrTbqMVe+MrfuV4= > =ahIZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >