Re: [Evolution] Stalled evolution-mail process

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

On 11 Aug 2001 09:41:07 +1000, David Luyer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:35:28PM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > On 10 Aug 2001 23:03:21 +1000, David Luyer wrote:
> > > A 'D' state could quite easily be the kernel's fault.  Does 'dmesg' have
> > > anything interesting in it?
> >
> > Nothing :(((
>
> How about in ps -axo stat,pid,wchan ... what's the wchan in the stuck
> process?
Just got 2 evolution-mail threads stalled :

ps -axo stat,pid,wchan | grep 2373
D     2373 down_write_failed
ps -axo stat,pid,wchan | grep 2376
D     2376 down_write_failed

> Also you might want to check your mount options for the NFS, maybe
> something like soft,intr,timeo=14 could be added to make it timeout
> and abort NFS requests better if anything is going wrong with the
> client-server communication (which seems to happen even over direct
> switched ethernet at times with many Linux kernel revs).
>
> > > Again, .nfs* files are nothing to do with Evolution either.
> >
> > Well, I'm not so sure, since after each "Receive new messages", a new
> > .nfs file appears (probably generated by deleting movemail files) and
> > appears as used (deleted) by evolution-mail (seen in lsof).. And I'm the
> > only one accessing this file.. I'm wondering if there is several threads
> > trying to access the same file..
>
> OK, when I wrote they were nothing to do with Evolution what I should
> have written is "caused by Evolution but they're not Evolution's
> responsibility to track".  It's up to nfs/the kernels (of the client and
> server) to track these things - Evolution should have no idea that every
> time it deletes a file via NFS that is held open at the time it results
> in a .nfs* file.

Ok
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Frédéric Crozat
MandrakeSoft