killing uninterruptible sleep process

2002-07-22 Thread Sagi Bashari
Hi I logged in to one of my servers today and noticed that the load average is very high. After investigating the problem I found two processes in D stat (uninterruptible sleep): root 24344 0.0 0.2 1532 584 ?DN Jul21 0:01 /usr/bin/updatedb -f NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,PROC,DEVPTS -e

Re: killing uninterruptible sleep process

2002-07-22 Thread guy keren
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: I logged in to one of my servers today and noticed that the load average is very high. After investigating the problem I found two processes in D stat (uninterruptible sleep): root 24344 0.0 0.2 1532 584 ?DN Jul21 0:01

Re: Why do we need uninterruptible sleep? (was: Re: killing uninterruptible sleep process)

2002-07-22 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002, Omer Zak wrote about Why do we need uninterruptible sleep? (was: Re: killing uninterruptible sleep process): Why then there is such a thing as uninterruptible sleep in Unix/Linux? What useful purpose (besides full Posix conformance) does this serve? As far as I know