Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 15:27:31 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: df hangs on 2.2.6-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.981102152336.10200M-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <199811021945.OAA19170@jabberwock.rstcorp.com>
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Viren R. Shah wrote: > > This is on an NFS server: > > [vshah@hal] ~> uname -a > FreeBSD hal 2.2.6-BETA FreeBSD 2.2.6-BETA #0: Thu Mar 12 14:11:10 EST 1998 toor@hal:/var/src/sys/compile/HAL_TWO i386 Perhaps you'd like to CVSup and upgrade to 2.2.7-STABLE, it can't hurt. > Whenever I do a "df" on the system, the df process hangs, and can't > be killed. Has anyone seen this before? The system still does > everything else fine. I have seen the exact same thing using rumba/sharity-light (SMB/CIFS client), and get the same results. > So now I have: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > vshah 21694 0.0 0.2 636 272 p0 R+ 2:42PM 0:00.00 ps -gu > vshah 21201 0.0 0.0 188 52 p1- D 11:44AM 0:00.00 df > vshah 21228 0.0 0.0 188 52 p0- D 11:46AM 0:00.00 df . > vshah 21289 0.0 0.0 188 52 p0- D 11:51AM 0:00.00 df > vshah 21392 0.0 0.0 188 52 p3- D 1:13PM 0:00.00 df > vshah 21618 0.0 0.0 188 52 p0- D 2:11PM 0:00.00 df > vshah 21670 0.0 0.7 1112 956 p0 Ss 2:38PM 0:00.33 -tcsh (tcsh) > vshah 21191 0.0 0.0 188 52 p0- D 11:43AM 0:00.00 df Yes. no ``kill -9'' was good enough for my df / ls / anything NFS related zombies. > Any ideas? The box has been up for a while: > > [vshah@hal] ~> uptime > 2:43PM up 149 days, 3:55, 2 users, load averages: 0.20, 0.15, 0.12 I hate when people use uptime as a muscle flex or penis war. > And, unless it is absolutely necessary, we don't want to reboot it. People who do real work understand the validity of a reboot, uptime is nothing if the box doesn't work. Rebooting was the only thing I found to get rid of the processes (obviously, it would), though on shutdown, I got the "couldn't kill all processes, use ps -axl" message. - bill fumerola [root/billf]@chc-chimes.com - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800)252.2421 x128 / bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - BF1560 - "Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities" -Lord Dunsany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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