Re: More processes hanging in 'D' state.

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>]

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?