Blocked process

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, CmdLnKid wrote:
> >> came back or the machine was rebooted. I continued for a while
> >> using /var/mail over NFS while setting or unset mail variables for
> >> the shell. You may also want to check into whether something is
> >> trying to acquire a lock on a file over that NFS mount which could
> >> accrue some extra time making it seem like a process is hung.
> >
> > We don't have any NFS mounts so I don't think that's it :(
>
> A number of issues were corrected over the course of the 6.x life
> span involving scheduing, including some relating to "lost wakeups". 
> Many bug fixes relating to threading were also introduced (not sure
> if that's relevant to your workload).  While it's never a
> particularly fun recommendation, I think I'd suggest sliding forward
> to the most recent 6.x kernel (but otherwise identical
> configuration), perhaps sticking with your current userspace, and
> seeing if that resolves the issue.

OK, should be feasible to do that I think. Luckily people at this site 
don't need to drive for a few hours to fix the PC :)

Thanks.

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