Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote:
+++ Hans Fugal [01/10/08 11:27 -0600]:FWIW I've also seen situations where processes get stuck in everlasting io wait for inexplicable reasons and absolutely will not go away without a reboot. I've had systems with load upwards of 70 for days or (dare I say) months but which were completely responsive (the *real* load was about 1 or less). Just couldn't get rid of those pesky processes without rebooting, which I didn't want to do.I am glad to know it happens occasionally to you too, Hans. Now I don't feelso bad if I have to reboot.
99.9% of the time when you get unkillable procs, it is due to waiting in IO (Disk state);it's either a race condition, a kernel bug, or possibly a filesystem bug.
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