From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Steiner Subject: Re: Stale File handles keep coming back Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:03:23 +0200 Message-ID: <42723EAB.3070103@bio.ifi.lmu.de> References: <1114463253.2487.73.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17006.13241.129839.558300@cse.unsw.edu.au> <1114554149.4470.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17006.64544.860436.620665@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: Kris Vassallo , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DRW7M-0003WE-DC for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:05:20 -0700 Received: from acheron.ifi.lmu.de ([129.187.214.135]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1DRW7K-0001mT-TV for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 07:05:20 -0700 To: Neil Brown In-Reply-To: <17006.64544.860436.620665@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: One more info: It seems that we can easily reproduce the problem when a) an application does some work in a directory and b) a shell is running in the same directory and left unused for some time (about 45 minutes seem to be enough). Then the shell encounters the "stale NFS handle" when it tries to do sth again. Scenarios are e.g. an emacs running and writing a .tex file every few minutes, and a shell is used to call "latex ...". 40 minutes of editing with emacs without using the shell result in a stale NFS handle when calling latex in the shell after that time. Or running a firefox and having the shell chdir to ~/.mozilla/firefox/ I guess firefox is writing the cache or sth. else. Again, the shell will stale when left untouched for about 40 minutes. Maybe this can help to reproduce the bug. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs