From: SKRdJ@nowhere.net   
      
   	I have a Slackware64 15.0 system on which I had several   
   directories mounted by NFS from a remote system. That remote system was   
   actually rebooted a few times - for maintenance purposes - but I was   
   stupid enough not to unmount those directories in my system. In fact, I   
   had at least one terminal emulator where I was in one of the NFS-mounted   
   directories. I foolishly tried to list the contents of that directory,   
   and the shell just froze up on me. I had to kill the terminal emulator.   
      
   	The system load has shot up to at least 4.00 ever since, even   
   when, according to top, nothing much is going on in the system. I mean, I   
   have a few things running, but nothing to justify that load: all the   
   cores are at least 95% idle at any given time.   
      
   	I was able to unmount those NFS directories - forcefully, on   
   occasion - and I was able to stop the RPC and NFSD daemons. However, the   
   high load issue did not disappear.   
      
   	Anybody got any suggestions as to how to diagnose and solve this   
   problem, without rebooting? top is not helping, and I see nothing   
   relevant in dmesg, or any of the /var/log files. More precisely, there   
   are relevant entries, but they are all old and not being updated - but   
   the high load stubbornly remains.   
      
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