System with NFS mounts entered a hang state with a large number of 'D' state processes
Issue
- The system entered a hang-state on some commands like ps, ls, pwd, etc. and the below messages are visible in the /var/log/messages file followed by a lot of 'D' state processes:
kernel: [4403978.396146] [<ffffffff81138443>] handle_mm_fault+0x263/0x2c0
kernel: [4403978.396448] [<ffffffff810414e9>] __do_page_fault+0x139/0x480
kernel: [4403978.396868] [<ffffffff814dda05>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
- kernel version earlier than 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6 or kernel-2.6.32-279.el6
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