Strange process

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 15), Ivan Kolosovskiy said:
> i have strange deadlocked(?) process on my system.
> 
> top:
> 
> PID USERNAME  THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 38410 findfile    1  96    0     0K     0K START  0   0:00  0.00% grotty
> 
> ps:
> 
> host$ ps -waux | grep grotty
> findfile 38410  0,0  0,0     0     0  p6  REJ  19:57     0:00,25 [grotty]

E in the STAT column means the process is trying to exit, but can't.
What does "ps lp 38410" print?  The MWCHAN column should say where in
the kernel the process is stuck.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com