From: Jan Hudec Subject: Re: Unable to kill processes in D-state Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:43:36 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20021006174336.GC17170@vagabond> References: <20021005182740.GC16200@vagabond> <20021005235614.GC25827@stud.ntnu.no> <20021006021802.GA31878@pegasys.ws> <1033871869.1247.4397.camel@phantasy> <20021006024902.GB31878@pegasys.ws> <20021006105917.GB13046@stud.ntnu.no> <20021006122415.GE31878@pegasys.ws> <20021006143636.GA30441@stud.ntnu.no> <20021006164228.GB17170@vagabond> <20021006170932.GA23134@stud.ntnu.no> Reply-To: Jan Hudec Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Hudec , jw schultz , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from bohnice.netroute.lam.cz ([212.71.169.62] helo=vagabond.cybernet.cz) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17yFRa-0006in-00 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2002 10:43:54 -0700 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20021006170932.GA23134@stud.ntnu.no> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 07:09:32PM +0200, Thomas Lang?s wrote: > Jan Hudec: > > If the shares were successfuly reloaded, then the processes should wake > > up. If they don't, it's a bug in NFS. > > They never wake up, and it happens every time. > > > Try to reproduce it (ie. reboot some machine, let it start everything > > and then restart the autofsd and see if processes lock up) and then talk > > to NFS maintainers about that. > > As I said above, it happens every time we encounter this, ie. it's a bug > that easy to reproduce (since I added nfs@lists.sourceforge.net to the > CC-list, I'm going to write some of what's already said in this thread). > > Problem: > Processes entering D-state is unkillable. We have a problem with this > everytime we restart autofs (which automounts quite a few NFS-shares > on campus), ie. on our samba-boxes smbd hangs forever after this > (in D-state). Samba still works, it's just that all the D-state processes > is unkillable and will remain that way untill we reboot the computer. > Every D-state process increases the load on the machine, and one of our > 2-CPU intel-boxes currently remains at 430 (which extremly high for such > a box). > > Solution: > ? :) You should probably provide detailed info on your setup (computers, kernel versions, automounter version etc. - as SubmitingBugs in kernel source suggests). (And maybe change subject to start with NFS PROBLEM, so more NFS people notice.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs