Re: e1000 intel driver bug (which impacts nfs)

[seth vidal <skvidal@phy.duke.edu>]

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On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 18:28, Thomas Langås wrote:
> jason andrade:
> > I hope this helps anyone else trying to debug mysterious "nfs hangs" under
> > 2.4.X.  It doesn't seem to be tickled unless you are doing quite large
> > amounts of nfs traffic (we're pushing 1-1.5T a day on this interface)
> > and it's quite random (i've had a lockup from 4 hours to 10 days after
> > a reboot)
> 
> We've also got problems with nfs-hangs when transfering large files (ie.
> files around 300-400M, sometime we have to go a bit higher tho, like
> 2GB-3GB files, but it's always possible to trigger this. However, we
> don't need to be jumping through hoops to "fix it", after a min or so,
> it's ok again. It seems to me like there's a VM problem or something.
> 
> We've got 2GB mem on the machines which are suffering from theese 
> problems.

Could this be a VM problem - something like a problem flushing the write
cache?

it sounds like that from your description.

-sv


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