Processes Hanging

[Alex Povolotsky]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:56:37 -0500
William L Stube II <wlstube at lssaa.wisc.edu> wrote:

WLSI> Had to wait about a month for the machine to start going nuts
WLSI> again, but the WCHAN column says inode.
WLSI> 
WLSI> Any ideas?
WLSI> www      73970  0.0  0.7  4108 2872  ??  D     8:00AM   0:00.03 
WLSI> /usr/local/sbin/    80 73970     1   0 -14  0  4108 2872 inode  D 
WLSI>    ?? 

I'd guess either hardware trouble, or attempt to read directory with REALLY many files (maybe 10000). 

Rarely showing up hardware troubles happens SOMETIMES, and they are hard to track. Badly termitated SCSI bus can give you lots of strange errors, and I still wonder how could I trigger an error by upgrading OS (and downgrading did not help) once in 1996 ;-)

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Alex.