NFS: Processes marked "in disk"

[Namik Dala]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:29:23AM +0100, Namik Dala wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:29:33PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> > (2) Could you show the output of "ps -axl" for hung processes?  Might also
> >     be interesting to have you recompile the kernel with "options DDB" 
> >     and "options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER".  When a process hangs on the client,
> >     hit ctrl-alt-escape (or serial break on serial console), then type in
> >     'trace pid', substituting the pid of the process in question.
> 
> If it dies again, I will do this.

Hmm.. bad idea, or not? The problem is that the rpc.lockd parent
on the server side has core dumped. May be I should figure out
how to compile it with debugging symbols and send a backtrace if
it happens again.

						-Namik-