On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 10:27:55AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > In the process of hammering the threaded MPM with flood (which is > threaded too) on a SMP Linux 2.4.3 box, I got processes that were in > a "disk sleep" state. They are not killable, attachable, or > debuggable. Some documentation in the kernel refers to this D state > as the "uninterruptible sleep" state. The only way to remove the > processes is to reboot. Yuck. > > Anyway, it seems to be a bug in the 2.4.3 kernel (maybe earlier?) > kernel. However, some people reported that it was fixed in 2.4.3-ac5 > (see google). I just upgraded to 2.4.6 (Mandrake's current cooker > series kernel RPM) and I haven't been able to reproduce it yet. > > This seems worthy of a README as both Mandrake 8.0 and RedHat 7.1 are > based on 2.4.3 - so I believe they will both exhibit this. -- justin
Just on a side note, I also tried to reproduce this bug with my non-SMP rh71 (linux 2.4.3) machine, and could not. -aaron
