I just had one of the DBA group ask if I could see what was hanging
their session (they had started a patch script and it hadn't done
anything for about 20 minutes). `ps` indicated that the current process
for their session was running `fuser` and that fuser had gone into
state U (Uninteruptible sleep). Silly me executed the same command
on the same file and it did the same thing. Then I did `fuser` on
a different file and it did the same thing. Any ideas on why this
might be happening? Here's the output for the process that ps gives:
root 228122 0.0 0.0 1.76M 192K pts/5 U + 11:30:12 0:00.01
/usr/sbin/fuser /u02/dfindb/8.1.7/bin/oracle
Charles Ballowe
Unix System Administrator
cballowe_at_usg.com
x3896
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 16:39:54 NZST