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Subject: Re: processes stuck in kqread
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kevin kramer wrote:
> I have been having issues for some time on -CURRENT. My latest update 
> was 7/11. I have identified these processes as being stuck in kqread 
> while waiting for them to continue.
> 
> Processes that I know are a problem:
> sshd - I can watch a login and the process goes from Select to kqread, 
> takes about 3-4 minutes to get a login prompt
> top - takes about 2-3 minutes to come up
> tar - never really even starts to read data in and stays in kqread
> 
> Processes not affected:
> scp
> gstat


Can you show a ps -auxl while one or more processes are in this state?


Eric