Re: Debugging process hanging in D status and not responding to SIGKILL

2007-12-21 Thread Ray Lee
On Dec 21, 2007 7:38 AM, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > Occasionally all my apache2 processes hang in "D" process status where they > are > no longer responsible to SIGKILL which makes the server almost un-rebootable. > The processes usually vanish after about 15-30min. >

Debugging process hanging in D status and not responding to SIGKILL

2007-12-21 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Occasionally all my apache2 processes hang in "D" process status where they are no longer responsible to SIGKILL which makes the server almost un-rebootable. The processes usually vanish after about 15-30min. I know that this usually means "I/O wait" somewhere deep inside a kernel function