unkillable process stuck in "nfsaio"

[Rong-En Fan]

On 3/16/06, Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> четвер 16 березень 2006 15:59 Ви написали:
> > Are you sure you mounted "intr" :) ? The default is "nointr".
>
> No, I'm not sure. But the NFS server did not go anywhere, and the writing was
> progressing fine until I hit Ctrl-C.
>
> When I rebooted, I got the complain, that "some processes would not die" and
> the flushing had to give up on one vnode and on 151 buffers.
>
> Upon reboot, *all* filesystems were marked as dirty, despite an "orderly"
> shutdown via "shutdown -r now ...".

What Mohan said is for client-side mount option. I have similar problems
recently. See my post few days ago on stable@, title is "nfsclient process
stucks in nfsaio". In short, check your client's fstab, see if there
is intr or -i
option for the nfs mount. If yes, please remove them :-)

Best Regards,
Rong-En Fan