 | | | High load average but nothing going on???? | High load average but nothing going on???? 2005-06-15 - By Chris St. Pierre
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If you do a ps -aux, you'll probably see that the state on the cp (and
now on the lsof) is D, which means that it's got a file open, and is
in an unkillable state. If so, the only way to kill the process is to
restart the box.
Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Gary Mansell wrote:
>I think that I might have found the culprit - a hung copy command to an
>automounted directory.
>
>The only trouble is that I cannot kill the process with a kill -9, and I
>cannot stop the automounter with "service autofs stop" as it says that
>the device is busy.
>
>an lsof /store (the automounted directory) just hangs.
>
>Any ideas how I kill this process and restart the automounter?
>
>Regards
>
>
>On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:26 -0500, Clif Smith wrote:
>
>> Check for hung processes as well. While they might not be actively
>> using any or much of any system resources, they can still be counted
>> as active processes against the load avg.
>>
>> cjs
>>
>> On 6/14/05, Gary Mansell <Gary.Mansell@(protected)> wrote:
>> > Nothing unusual in the messages file, no nfs problems (the machine is an
>> > nfs fileserver) and iostat is showing next to no IO.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 11:01 +0200, nodata wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > number 00222915.
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>> > > Any log messages? Any nfs problems? What does iostat say?
>> > >
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