Re: NFS stops responding

[Michael O'Donnell <modonnell-kx56TfycDUc@public.gmane.org>]

Well, it's encouraging to finally get a response and even more so that
you may be seeing the same kinds of failures.  I will post logging output
from /var/log/messages from the client and server machines while the
failures are occurring and maybe we can compare notes?


Dennis Nezic wrote:
> Well I for one am convinced there is a bug either in the linux kernel,
> or somewhere. I have a similar problem (I posted about it here on March
> 18 2010), where NFS activity very frequently hangs for several minutes,
> for no good reason. (Changing the nfs mount option to "hard" should get
> rid of the I/O Errors, but it's still incredibly frustrating/annoying
> -- it will simply retry after precious minutes have been wasted, instead
> of failing :b). My problems began ONLY after I upgraded my server's
> kernel. When did yours begin?
> 
> I have noticed that when a client hangs, other clients still work --
> ie. the nfs server is still (sortof) working -- so I imagine there is
> something wrong with the client too?
>