Hi, In a vserver, I've a processus with D status : $ vps aux | grep "my_vs1" stephane 572 40004 my_vs1 0.0 0.0 4704 1420 ? D 11:41 0:01 scp -r root@example.com:/home/foobar/www/ ./ stephane 573 40004 my_vs1 0.2 0.0 0 0 ? H 11:41 0:15 [ssh] I can't kill this process :( In dmesg, I've this : [2220677.412013] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00020004 [2220677.412048] IP: [<c1087710>] find_get_page+0x40/0x81 [2220677.412080] *pde = 00000000 [2220677.412102] Oops: 0000 [#9] SMP [2220677.412126] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/md1/md/mismatch_cnt [2220677.412155] Modules linked in: iptable_raw xt_comment xt_recent xt_policy ipt_ULOG ipt_REJECT ipt_REDIRECT ipt_NETMAP ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_ECN ipt_ecn ipt_CLUSTERIP ipt_ah ipt_addrtype nf_nat_tftp nf_nat_snmp_basic nf_nat_sip nf_nat_pptp nf_nat_proto_gre nf_nat_irc nf_nat_h323 nf_nat_ftp nf_nat_amanda ts_kmp nf_conntrack_amanda nf_conntrack_tftp nf_conntrack_sip nf_conntrack_proto_sctp nf_conntrack_pptp nf_conntrack_proto_gre nf_conntrack_netlink nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_irc nf_conntrack_h323 nf_conntrack_ftp xt_tcpmss xt_pkttype xt_physdev xt_owner xt_NFQUEUE xt_NFLOG nfnetlink_log xt_multiport xt_MARK xt_mark xt_mac xt_limit xt_length xt_iprange xt_helper xt_hashlimit xt_DSCP xt_dscp xt_dccp xt_conntrack xt_CONNMARK xt_connmark xt_CLASSIFY xt_tcpudp xt_state iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_conntrack iptable_mangle nfnetlink iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables dummy hwmon_vid i2c_viapro loop evdev snd_pcm snd_timer psmouse serio_raw snd soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_i801 i2c_core pcspkr processor button intel_agp agpgart rng_core ext3 jbd mbcache raid1 md_mod sd_mod ide_pci_generic piix ide_core crc_t10dif ata_piix ata_generic ahci libata scsi_mod r8169 mii thermal fan thermal_sys [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] [2220677.412710] [2220677.412731] Pid: 558, comm: scp Tainted: G D (2.6.31.6-vs2.3.0.36.24-beng #1) 986LCD-M/mITX [2220677.412775] EIP: 0060:[<c1087710>] EFLAGS: 00210203 CPU: 0 [2220677.412801] EIP is at find_get_page+0x40/0x81 [2220677.412824] EAX: 0001ffff EBX: f6bc46c0 ECX: 00020000 EDX: 00000000 [2220677.412850] ESI: f3df42f0 EDI: 00020004 EBP: f6bc4778 ESP: dfcefd24 [2220677.412876] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [2220677.412902] Process scp (pid: 558, ti=dfcee000 task=f64f8df0 task.ti=dfcee000) [2220677.412942] Stack: [2220677.412961] 00020000 00200296 f65ab400 00000444 f6bc477c f6bc46c0 f6bc4778 00000444 [2220677.412998] <0> f6bc4778 c10879ea f6bc46c0 00000000 ffffffff c1087c4b 000000d0 00000444 [2220677.413053] <0> 00000000 f6bc46c0 00000000 00444000 00000000 f7e843f1 00445000 00000000 [2220677.413118] Call Trace: [2220677.413141] [<c10879ea>] ? find_lock_page+0x10/0x43 [2220677.413166] [<c1087c4b>] ? grab_cache_page_write_begin+0x30/0x88 [2220677.413219] [<f7e843f1>] ? ext3_write_begin+0x79/0x1d2 [ext3] [2220677.413247] [<c10884b3>] ? generic_file_buffered_write+0xe8/0x27f [2220677.413287] [<c1088a8e>] ? __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x26c/0x294 [2220677.413318] [<c10329d5>] ? current_fs_time+0x13/0x15 [2220677.413344] [<c10892f9>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x60/0xb7 [2220677.413388] [<f7e800c8>] ? ext3_file_write+0x19/0x85 [ext3] [2220677.413421] [<c10ae891>] ? do_sync_write+0xc0/0x107 [2220677.413447] [<c112dd35>] ? rb_insert_color+0x51/0xb5 [2220677.413475] [<c1040ad2>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d [2220677.413502] [<c10ae57c>] ? fsnotify_access+0x5a/0x61 [2220677.413529] [<c10fd638>] ? security_file_permission+0xc/0xd [2220677.413555] [<c10ae7d1>] ? do_sync_write+0x0/0x107 [2220677.413580] [<c10af1c5>] ? vfs_write+0x7e/0xd6 [2220677.413604] [<c10af2b5>] ? sys_write+0x3c/0x63 [2220677.413630] [<c10030e9>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb [2220677.413653] Code: 0c 8b 44 24 10 e8 cd 59 0a 00 85 c0 89 c6 74 44 8b 08 b8 ff ff ff ff f6 c1 01 0f 45 c8 8d 41 ff 83 f8 fd 89 0c 24 77 d5 8d 79 04 <8b> 59 04 89 7c 24 04 85 db 74 c7 8d 6b 01 89 d8 8b 7c 24 04 f0 [2220677.413799] EIP: [<c1087710>] find_get_page+0x40/0x81 SS:ESP 0068:dfcefd24 [2220677.413831] CR2: 0000000000020004 [2220677.414173] ---[ end trace 90eddfda8e996248 ]--- I don't know if this information is useful for you. Question : I can't kill this process, I need to reboot the server completely ? Thanks for your help, Stephane