Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Buesch <> | Subject | Re: Process falls into uninterruptible sleep | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:23:03 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 09 April 2003 21:39, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > uniterruptible processes cannot be killed :) I know. :) But it shouldn't fall into this sleep.
> Can you give more information? Like what machine do you have, Intel Pentium 4 1.6Ghz Northwood 256MB Apacer DDR Ram CL2 MSI 845 Ultra ARU Board with latest BIOS GeForce 4 Ti 4400 BT878-TV SoundBlaster 128 FritzCard PCI v2 NE2k compatible NW
mb@lfs:/proc> cat devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 6 lp 7 vcs 10 misc 14 sound 21 sg 43 ttyI 44 cui 45 isdn 68 capi20 81 video_capture 89 i2c 99 ppdev 108 ppp 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw
Block devices: 2 fd 3 ide0 7 loop 9 md 11 sr 22 ide1 80 i2o_block
mb@lfs:/proc> cat cmdline root=/dev/md0 hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi es1371=0x200 js=2btn mce vga=779 mem=262080K
mb@lfs:/proc> cat filesystems nodev rootfs nodev bdev nodev proc nodev sockfs nodev tmpfs nodev pipefs ext3 ext2 nodev ramfs msdos vfat iso9660 nodev nfs reiserfs nodev devpts
mb@lfs:/proc> cat /etc/fstab /dev/md0 / reiserfs auto 0 1 /dev/hdc1 /boot ext2 auto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec,nodev,nosuid 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec,nodev,nosuid 0 0 /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec,nodev,nosuid 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,sync,nodev,nosuid 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc6 /mnt/suse reiserfs noauto,user 0 0 #/dev/hdc5 /mnt/suse/boot ext2 noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hdc2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 #usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,noauto 0 0 192.168.0.50:/mnt/nfs_1 /mnt/nfs_1 nfs rw,hard,intr,user,nodev,nosuid,exec 0 0
mb@lfs:/proc> cat cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz stepping : 4 cpu MHz : 2240.055 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm bogomips : 4469.55
> what hard disks type, two IBM IC35L040 (I know, these disks are not the best :) with software RAID 0 on reiserfs
mb@lfs:/proc> cat mdstat Personalities : [raid0] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid0 hdc5[1] hda5[0] 39065792 blocks 4k chunks
unused devices: <none>
mb@lfs:/proc> cat partitions major minor #blocks name
9 0 39065792 md0 22 0 40209120 hdc 22 1 9544 hdc1 22 2 292824 hdc2 22 3 1 hdc3 22 5 19530976 hdc5 22 6 9765472 hdc6 22 7 10610176 hdc7 3 0 40209120 hda 3 1 3903763 hda1 3 2 289170 hda2 3 3 1 hda3 3 5 19535008 hda5 3 6 16474626 hda6
>what was kmail doing when it got stuck. I only clicked "save as..." to save a message to disk. Just after clicking (the save-dialog didn't open) it freezed. There were some other apps in the past, that freezed and felt into uninterruptible sleep. There never seemed to be a reason for it.
> Memory, swap space, (This is mem-status *now* after rebooting to kill kmail) mb@lfs:~> cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 261718016 157396992 104321024 0 9895936 56741888 Swap: 595943424 41193472 554749952 MemTotal: 255584 kB MemFree: 101876 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 9664 kB Cached: 49892 kB SwapCached: 5520 kB Active: 26460 kB Inactive: 103076 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 255584 kB LowFree: 101876 kB SwapTotal: 581976 kB SwapFree: 541748 kB
mb@lfs:/proc> cat swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/hda2 partition 289160 20120 42 /dev/hdc2 partition 292816 20108 42
> attached devices, There's no external device connected. (no printer, scanner, etc...)
> distro, LinuxFromScratch
> configuration of the kernel ... etc? grep "=[y|m]" .config CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_PGE=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y CONFIG_PARPORT=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y CONFIG_MD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y CONFIG_PACKET=y CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y CONFIG_NETFILTER=y CONFIG_FILTER=y CONFIG_UNIX=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=y CONFIG_INET_ECN=y CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK=y CONFIG_IP_NF_FTP=y CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_PKTTYPE=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TOS=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_ECN=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LENGTH=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_TCPMSS=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_STATE=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_UNCLEAN=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_OWNER=y CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MIRROR=y CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REDIRECT=y CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_FTP=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TOS=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MARK=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=y CONFIG_ATM=y CONFIG_ATM_CLIP=y CONFIG_ATM_CLIP_NO_ICMP=y CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ADMA=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y CONFIG_I2O=y CONFIG_I2O_PCI=y CONFIG_I2O_BLOCK=y CONFIG_I2O_LAN=y CONFIG_I2O_SCSI=y CONFIG_I2O_PROC=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=y CONFIG_EQUALIZER=y CONFIG_TUN=y CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_PCI=y CONFIG_NE2K_PCI=y CONFIG_PPP=y CONFIG_PPP_FILTER=y CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=y CONFIG_PPP_SYNC_TTY=y CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=y CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=y CONFIG_PPPOE=y CONFIG_PPPOATM=y CONFIG_SLIP=y CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6=y CONFIG_ISDN=y CONFIG_ISDN_BOOL=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_BSDCOMP=y CONFIG_ISDN_AUDIO=y CONFIG_ISDN_TTY_FAX=y CONFIG_ISDN_DIVERSION=y CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX=y CONFIG_ISDN_HISAX=y CONFIG_HISAX_EURO=y CONFIG_HISAX_FRITZ_PCIPNP=y CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI=y CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPI20=y CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI_CAPIDRV=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED=y CONFIG_SERIAL_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y CONFIG_PRINTER=y CONFIG_PPDEV=y CONFIG_I2C=y CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=y CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y CONFIG_I2C_PROC=y CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_INTEL_RNG=y CONFIG_NVRAM=y CONFIG_RTC=y CONFIG_AGP=y CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=y CONFIG_VIDEO_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=y CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y CONFIG_JBD=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_RAMFS=y CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_JOLIET=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_V3=y CONFIG_NFSD=y CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y CONFIG_NFSD_TCP=y CONFIG_SUNRPC=y CONFIG_LOCKD=y CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y CONFIG_NLS=y CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_SOUND_BT878=y CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371=y CONFIG_SOUND_TVMIXER=y CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y CONFIG_ZLIB_INFLATE=y CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y
mb@lfs:/proc> cat version Linux version 2.4.21-pre6 (root@lfs) (gcc version 3.2.2) #3 Sam Apr 5 20:23:37 CEST 2003
> It looks like the process is getting really stuck while reading/writing > from/to disk. You want to check the kernel messages, to see if there > is something there. Nothing unusual in syslog.
Thank you for your help.
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