Hope this info helps debug this problem...
I've got an afio backup utility I've been running for months. This morning
it got stuck in a D state:
/proc/status
Name: afio
State: D (disk sleep)
Pid: 6967
PPid: 19182
Uid: 0 0 0 0
Gid: 0 0 0 0
Groups: 0 1 2 3 4 6 10 11 101 102 103 105
VmSize: 1236 kB
VmLck: 0 kB
VmRSS: 384 kB
VmData: 168 kB
VmStk: 20 kB
VmExe: 44 kB
VmLib: 972 kB
SigPnd: 0000000000040000
SigBlk: 0000000000000000
SigIgn: 0000000080001000
SigCgt: 0000000000000002
CapInh: 00000000fffffeff
CapPrm: 00000000fffffeff
CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
/proc/stat
6967 (afio) D 19182 38 38 0 -1 272 570 238 4513095 1058 3570 59889 7 27 0 0
0 0 6457508 1265664 96 2147483647 134512640 134556468 32
21224880 3221221452 1074493476 262144 0 4096 2 3223383464 269 0 17
/proc/statm
131 96 80 13 0 83 16
My version of this utility waits for a /tmp file in-between volumes. I
touched the file this morning and it removed it but then got stuck as above.
I'll be upgrading to 2.2.2-5 now...
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