The process info:
root 11952 1 0 Jan17 ? 00:00:00 gtar --use-compress-program=/usr/local/admin/bin/gzip1 --totals -cvl --exclude core --exclude .thumbnail --exclude xover-cache --exclude cache
Files that are open:
[root@penguin root]# lsof -p 11952
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
gtar 11952 root cwd DIR 22,66 4096 65 /backup/greg
gtar 11952 root rtd DIR 3,2 4096 2 /
gtar 11952 root txt REG 3,2 153992 368163 /bin/tar
gtar 11952 root mem REG 3,2 107724 228281 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
gtar 11952 root mem REG 3,2 1578228 416151 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
gtar 11952 root mem REG 3,2 33513072 468527 /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
gtar 11952 root 0r FIFO 0,5 39450 pipe
gtar 11952 root 1w REG 3,2 82 224452 /var/log/nfs.list
gtar 11952 root 2w REG 3,2 82 224452 /var/log/nfs.list
The script I use saves a list of archived files to /var/log/nfs.list (used to work over NFS, not backs up to local drive).
I've tried every signal I could think of to use with kill but the process just won't die. It's not using any CPU but the load average has been over 1.0 since the process got hung (2 days ago).
All files are accessed on local drives, NFS should not be in the equation at all.
Any ideas???? ...besides a reboot of course.
-- Greg Gulik http://www.gulik.org/greg/ greg @ gulik.org
