From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: NFS retry on disconnection
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:52:27 -0400
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On 14 May 2002 10:16:59 +0200, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:

> Nope. Major, minor, it all goes through the same code and both can be
> interrupted. What can happen, though, is that one process could
> actually be waiting on another process.

What I've noticed is that, more often than not, the hanging processes
end up waiting for rpciod. Sending a SIGKILL to rpciod unhangs those
processes, but unfortunately only root can do that...

Ion

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