br...@nmsu.edu (Brook Milligan) writes:
># ps -lp 4904
>UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
> 0 4904 1 1968 127 0 9924 1160 tstile D ? 0:00.00 disklabel sd0
>What exactly does the 'tstile' mean?
It means, that the process is waiting for a mutex. There is no information on
what mutex it is waiting on, probably something related to a disk driver.
You can use the 'crash' utility or the DDB kernel debugger to get a
backtrace. This shows where the process is waiting, which is a good
hint on what it is waiting for.
>What can be done (short of a power reset) to unwedge this machine?
Probably nothing.
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