Re: Process stuck in D state.

James Manning (jmm@raleigh.ibm.com)
Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:15:58 -0400


[ Monday, October 4, 1999 ] Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Using the 2.2.11 kernel, I have a slew of Midnight commander
> processes stuck in the "D" dead state. They will NOT leave my
> process table period.

Just a "me, too" response...

I see the same thing on my 2.2.x machines with a dead NFS link...
on 2.2.6:

0 0 14168 1 0 0 732 400 end D ? 0:00 df -h
0 0 14182 1 0 0 732 400 end D ? 0:01 df -h

on 2.2.11-ac3:

000 0 6770 1 0 0 1076 456 rpc_ex D ? 0:00 df -h
000 0 6785 1 0 0 1076 456 rpc_ex D ? 0:00 df -h

(after killing the parent process so init would get it, in the hopes of
a successful reap... of course they're not zombie'd so that was useless :)

the 2.2.11-ac3 hang was intentional ifdown'ing the ethernet on an NFS
server... the hang stayed there for 30 minutes until I ifup'd the
NFS server and the df's went away...

James

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