 | | | High load average but nothing going on???? | High load average but nothing going on???? 2005-06-15 - By Dag Wieers
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Gary Mansell wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> http://nfs.sourceforge.net/#faq_d6
Indeed, a common remedy is to make the device physically unavailable so
that the underlaying device driver gives an unrecoverable error instead of
waiting for some resource. (In most cases you prefer the driver to try
again instead of throwing unrecoverable errors)
If it was a floppy-drive or a CD-tray, ejecting the media hard is usually
a good work-around. In the worst case a reboot is required. (however
doing any of this might lead to inconsistencies)
There are other causes for processes in D-state, mostly programming
erros (like module count/dependency problems or deadlocks).
Maybe a kernel developer can throw in a few experiences/tips ?
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