From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271064AbTGPLab (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271065AbTGPLab (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:30:31 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:27278 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271064AbTGPLa0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:30:26 -0400 X-Sender-Authentification: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:45:17 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: linux-kernel Cc: Neil Brown Subject: BUG REPORT 2.4.22-pre5/pre6: nfs-clients 2.4.21 stall under heavy load on server 2.4.22-pre5/pre6 Message-Id: <20030716134517.4e726b5a.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, subject says about all I can tell. If you take around 20 clients and let them do heavy nfs action on a 2.4.22-pre5/pre6 server some seem to draw bad cards and stall forever with: Jul 13 02:02:35 test-2 kernel: nfs: server nfsserver.in.my.domain not responding, still trying These messages show up with other kernels on server, too. But I cannot remember one where they do never recover. Even under 2.4.22-pre5/pre6 server they often recover, but not always. If there is something to test or you need further information please let me know. Regards, Stephan