From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263665AbUESDCT (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 23:02:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263777AbUESDCT (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 23:02:19 -0400 Received: from kendy.up.ac.za ([137.215.101.101]:45992 "EHLO kendy.up.ac.za") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263665AbUESDCP (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 May 2004 23:02:15 -0400 Message-ID: <40A9E239.4010909@cs.up.ac.za> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:15:21 +0200 From: Jaco Kroon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040325 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: acooks@cs.up.ac.za Subject: NFS deadlock Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms040103010408010504090703" X-Scan-Signature: 92b4b4113af203e4aa8b96377c51404e Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms040103010408010504090703 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello there I've once again got problems with the kernel locking up. I'm now convinced that it has something to do with NFS. Previously weve had 2 machines that locked up, plus my one at home, resulting in three machines. Sometimes they would recover by themselves after some time, other times they could be left for 2 days or so without recovering. All three of these use NFS to export files to other machines, it's the only thing we can find they have in common, other that x86 architecture, but then other machines would be dying as well. It should be noted that none of these runs on the newest hardware, but that should not matter, neither does any of our other servers. We have a 3rd NFS server, which doesn't take nearly as heavy load via NFS. I've been wondering why it hasn't locked up either, and this morning (right now in fact) it has decided that it is it's turn and is currently unusable. If anybody else is experiencing similar problems, or have possible work arounds, it would be appreciated if you could share your knowledge. 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