Any trick to remove a D-state dead process without rebooting?

[valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 12:03:56 +0800, Yun-Chih Chen said:

> > 2) cat /proc/NNN/stack     will give you a hint where the syscall is wedged.
>
> http://ix.io/CMN
> It seems that they all have something to do with autofs or filesystem.

Fortunately, you've hit an actually fixable problem that you may not need
a reboot - you just have a lot of processes waiting for a remote NFS file
system to respond.  Go find out where the mount is from, and why it's
not responding.  Fixing that will likely clean up your issue.
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