From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 10:47:17 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA01768 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:47:17 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA01762 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:47:13 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA27855; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:41:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510171741.KAA27855@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Problems with 'df' not doing anything To: jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu (Basket Case) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:41:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510170830.IAA00247@pcca71.gallaudet.edu> from "Basket Case" at Oct 17, 95 08:30:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 683 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Ive been having some problems with df not running or doing anything when my > system goes to near-full (as in, the 16 megs of memory I have is almost full) > but the swap space is still unused (according to top). 'df' has been sitting > there for about 5 minutes now and ps -aux | grep "df" shows the following: > > jon 207 0.0 0.6 232 76 v2 D+ 8:24AM 0:00.01 df > > Anyone have any ideas what's wrong? You have a hard nfs mount where the server has gone away. Change it to a soft mount, or use explicit FS names excluding the dead one. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.