[Slashcode-general] Slashd problem

[Micah Y. <yo...@ho...>]

OK, this is Screwed-Up(tm).

Finally got my co-located box for Slash (and other things).  Now, the slashd 
process is pretty much running out of control.  It's in the R state, taking 
99% of a CPU (there are two).

Now, whenever I try to access anything in the Slash site's log directory 
(containing slashd.log), the process (ls, mc, less, etc.) hangs and is in a D 
state.

Whenever I try to strace any of those processes, the same fate happens to the 
strace process.

I can't kill -9 any of them!!!  I know you can't kill a D process but why not 
the R slashd?

In fact, running reboot, the same thing happened to the shutdown process!  
Aaargh!

It's on an XFS filesystem.  I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Any ideas for how to get out of this mess?  The box is a 6-hour drive away 
and they charge $25 for power cycling, so I'd only want to use that as a last 
resort.

Thanks,
Micah