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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stuck process in D state
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:43:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1249393399.7924.213.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7837E6.9020301@nets.rwth-aachen.de>

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 15:30 +0200, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a process in D state on one of our servers. How can I get it killed?
> Seems to be hanging on nfs (but nfs server is up and running).
> Other processes have no problems accessing files on same nfs mount.

You can't, that's what D state means - TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, the only
way it can continue is to make that page its waiting on available.

I seem to remember some people are slowly converting most of those
wait_on_page stuff to interruptible waits, but that's a slow and tricky
business.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-04 13:30 Arnd Hannemann
2009-08-04 13:43 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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