Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mcvax!independent!dwight@uunet.uu.net (Dwight Ernest) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Daemons stuck in 'D' "short-term" wait state Message-ID: <8902101825.AA14994@independent.uucp> Date: 19 Feb 89 04:28:58 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 24 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 18:25:58 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 161, message 2 of 16 In v7n148, Rob McMahon writes: > ... a process which is stuck, reported by ps as in `D' "short > term" wait, and has been for two days. > ... Last time it happended, earlier > in the week, all the nfsd's got stuck in this state, > and the clients froze. Same thing happened to us once, yesterday, (for the first time) while running tops2d, the TOPS version 2 Sun daemon. Not killable. Had to reboot. Pain in the ***. All of our (Mac) clients froze too. Do we have a generic problem? Details: SunOS 3.5, 3/60 with 8 MB, and an excerpt from 'what tops2d' reveals: TOPS Version 2.0 11/12/87 tops.c 1.23 11/12/87 etc... --Dwight Ernest Technical Systems Coordinator The Independent (Newspaper Publishing PLC) 40 City Road, London EC1Y 2DB Phone: +44 1 956 1633 ...ukc!independent!dwight