[ale] Death Spiral.

[Robert L. Harris]

Ok, got an odd one in production.

A box has automounted NFS home directories (pre-existing me, trying to get
rid of this, now we have ammo).  A user apparantly was running some 
commands such as a grep in one case.  The /home entry went away.  The 
Process is still out there and appears to be causing some serious issues.
We have a couple boxes with load averages of 25.XX when they should be down
around 2-3 or less.

Killing the grep process doesn't seem to be doing squat.  Remounting root
complains that /home is busy.  "mount -o remount" doesn't do anything
either.

Thoughts other than reboot which is the next shot?

:wq!
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