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From: sch@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (R+C Schneider)
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Subject: Re: Daemons stuck in 'D' "short-term" wait state
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Date: 1 Mar 89 19:43:21 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 176, message 6 of 12

In v7n161 Dwight Ernest mentions programs getting stuck in a 'D' wait.  We
had a similar problem here, and it was traced to the lock daemon,
rpc.lockd, which tended to dump core or otherwise fail.  There are a
number of known bugs (a patch is available) with the rpc.lockd under 3.5,
as well as 4.0.  We got the patch tapes and have experienced no problems
since.

Roland Schneider                       <sch@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca>
University of Manitoba