Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Christopher Cashell <topher-pgsql(at)zyp(dot)org> writes:
> > 28424 postgres 18 0 16804 3044 15m D 0.0 1.6 0:06.72 postmaster
>
> > Note that it does have a process status of 'D', or uninterruptible
> > sleep. That would explain the unkillable part, though I'm curious how
> > it ended up there.
Is there an NFS server involved? If an NFS server disappears any process
waiting on I/O for it enters disk-wait indefinitely until it reappears.
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greg