Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:13:56 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot kill truss process Message-ID: <200301231413.h0NEDu0D009361@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20030123095104.Q4134-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> wrote:
> > Accoding to ps, the truss process is in "disk wait" ("D"),
> > but all disks are working perfectly fine, including the
> > NFS-mounted filesystems.
> >
> > The process that had been trussed ("jws") doesn't run any-
> > more (I had to kill it, using SIGKILL, I think).
>
> Welcome to NFS hell. That's why you should mount nfs-based filesystems
> with the "-o intr" flag.
Are you saying that the problem would not have occured if I
had mounted the filesystems with "-o intr"?
It was my understanding that the -o intr only made a
difference when the NFS server ist not responding.
That's not the case here.
> Are you sure you don't have any problem with
> the NFS filesystems?
Yes, I am sure.
> > Does anyone happen to have an idea how to get rid of the
> > truss process? I cannot reboot this machine.
>
> Check the NFS filesystems. If they are fine, you shouldn't have problems
> killing it.
They _are_ fine. They are served from a cluster of NetApp
filers over gigabit ethernet. I'm working on them all day
long, and so do a bunch of co-workers, not to mention
several production services. Everything is perfectly fine,
_except_ for that truss process. I'm hesitant to try it
again, because I fear it'll leave more of those processes.
Regards
Oliver
--
Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München
Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author
and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.
"All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe)
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200301231413.h0NEDu0D009361>