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From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: copying large files over NFS locks up machine
	on-testing from Thursday
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 20:26:20 -0700
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 > It sounds like the megaraid driver is unhappy. Can you reproduce this
> copying the file to /dev/null?

I think it was unhappy because its interrupts weren't being serviced.
Copying /home/kmacy/suseroot.0 to /home/kmacy/suseroot.1 (NFS -> NFS)
locks the machine up just fine. The machine will also become
unresponsive transiently when running fsck in domU on a filesystem
that is a loopback device mounted over NFS.

> It's worth checking the Dell site to make sure you have the latest
> megaraid firmware and driver.

Running native mainline 2.6.11.10 NFS transfers don't cause any
problems. To reduce the possibility of it being a benchmark-like SUE
I'll do a clean build from scratch of the dom0 kernel.


        -Kip