Re: 2.6.9: unkillable processes during heavy IO

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 17:45:30 EST


On Sul, 2004-11-14 at 22:15, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Next time it hangs like this, how can I get a kernel backtrace or other useful information
> for a certain process?

See what is in dmesg and /var/log/messages. Use ps to get the waitqueue
of the
stuck processes (see man ps)

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