I have a VM running RH 7.2 with kernel 2.4.19 ( with the three may2002 patches applied) and my problem is this: Certain processes, seeming mostly to do with nfs/automount/nis hang. top says they're waiting in function "down", "end", or, when zipl hung, "__wait_for_inode". They are also listed in top as D(ormant) and the load average is increased to (number of hung processes) + (real workload).
Has anyone had this happen before? and even better, know any solutions? Thanks in advance, Ashley Chaloner, Dept. of C.S., Warwick University, UK.
