Many crond process were in D state, had to reboot the server to recover from them.
Issue
- Many crond process were in D state with following backtraces
Backtrace:
#0 schedule at ffffffff80062fa0
#1 pipe_wait at ffffffff80047c7a
#2 pipe_readv at ffffffff8002e959
#3 pipe_read at ffffffff800eb6bc
#4 vfs_read at ffffffff8000b735
#5 sys_read at ffffffff80011d8a
#6 tracesys at ffffffff8005d28d (via system_call)
- Rebooted the system to recover.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
- Dell PowerEdge R620
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