On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 17:06, Learner wrote: > Hi , > > How to kill processes hanging in a blocked state as > shown below :- > > 100 D root 3810 1 0 78 0 - 355 end > 06:51 ? 00:00:00 df > > The stack trace is as below :- > You can't kill it. It's doing something that must not be interrupted (TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE). If a process gets stuck in TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE (shows by state 'D') it's a kernel bug, please report it. > df D C5AE9DA0 160 3810 1 > 4241 31874 (NOTLB) > Call Trace: [<f89db2a4>] __rpc_execute [sunrpc] 0x204 > (0xc5ae9d48) > [<f89d7596>] rpc_call_setup_Rsmp_f8ecb729 [sunrpc] > 0x46 (0xc5ae9d64) > [<f89d7479>] rpc_call_sync_Rsmp_f3c0f1eb [sunrpc] 0x69 > (0xc5ae9d70) > [<f89d748a>] rpc_call_sync_Rsmp_f3c0f1eb [sunrpc] 0x7a > (0xc5ae9d90) > [<f89d7680>] call_reserveresult [sunrpc] 0x0 > (0xc5ae9de4) > [<f89da410>] rpc_run_timer [sunrpc] 0x0 (0xc5ae9e04) > [<f89fa019>] nfs3_proc_statfs [nfs] 0x59 (0xc5ae9e40) > [<f89eda97>] nfs_statfs [nfs] 0x37 (0xc5ae9e90) > [<c0144759>] vfs_statfs [kernel] 0x59 (0xc5ae9f2c) > [<c01447cb>] sys_statfs [kernel] 0x3b (0xc5ae9f44) > [<c01073e3>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xc5ae9fc0) > > Even a kill -9 as root does not eliminate these > processes . > > Also the stack trace shows that it is not > in "sleep_uninterruptible" . > > Any pointers would help . > > Regards > > > > _______________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > http://vote.yahoo.com > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/