Rob Hagopian writes:
> OK, I had another communicator crash that kill -9 won't remove. No locked
> buffers, and strace acts funny.
>
This is very similar to a problem I had recently with SSLeay. Running
the ssleay executable, I was able to consistently reproduce a state
of "disk sleep" (i.e. the D in your ps output) when performing one
particular operation. Once in a state of disk sleep, the process could
not be killed, and the only solution was a hard reboot.
I'm running 2.0.30. Reproducing what I did, here's the very end of
the strace output:
read(4, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 6460) = 55
close(4) = 0
time([876266313]) = 876266313
open("/usr/lib/zoneinfo/GMT", O_RDWR) = 4
ioctl(4, 0x101, 0xbfffeea4) = 0
ioctl(4, 0x102, 0xbfffeec4) = 0
close(4
And here it sits. The uptime stats continue to gradually climb over
time to about 2.1, then level off. Hope this is useful. In general I
get the exact same behavior Rob described.
Jeremey.
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