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

[Mulyadi Santosa]

On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>

If it is indeed coming from nfs mount, check if it is mounted in
synchronous mode, and try to switch to async. See if it made any differences

Regards,

Mulyadi


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