Re: More processes hanging in 'D' state.

[Kelledin <kelledin+XFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 28 April 2003 07:36 am, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:27:09 -0500,
>
> Kelledin <kelledin+XFS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >As I mentioned in my last post,
> >if the deadlock gets hit, allocating or unlinking an inode on
> >the same fs as the deadlocked process breaks out of the
> >deadlock.
>
> Does a sync command break out as well?  IOW, do you have to
> change the hung filesystem or is it enough just to kick the
> disk?

Appending to a file doesn't help, nor does reading a file.  I 
apparently have to either create or remove a file before the 
deadlock breaks.  Haven't tried a sync though.

-- 
Kelledin
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