I did an lsof on that process and all the files it was accessing were
local file systems.
I tried to unmount. As a matter of fact I figured out that process was
stuck because I was trying to unmount my "backup" file system to switch
to a USB based drive.
Anyway, it's moot now, I couldn't wait any longer and ended up rebooting
the system.
Dave Goldblatt wrote:
That's what I suspected - the app is in an I/O wait (technically,
"uninterruptible sleep"). Usually this is due to an NFS hang, although
it can be caused by other media which has wedged but not timed out. One
trick which sometimes works is to unmount the mount point it's stuck
on.. if that doesn't work you're pretty much stuck.
You can try to force an unmount of a non-responsive NFS server by using
the -f option for umount (and optionally add the -l option).
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