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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: Possible dcache BUG
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:26:07AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I've not had issues around the dcache for quite some time, I think not
>> since the 2.5.65 timeframe. IIRC maneesh and dipankar had some fixes
>> that resolved all my issues not long afterward. So unfortunately I have
>> nothing strictly dcache-related to report. Chris may have been
>> referring to some potentially pathological NFS behavior I've seen for a
>> long time centered around extended periods of knfsd unresponsiveness.

On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:19:02PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> I was referring to:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.2/0410.html
> ...doesn't look NFS-related to me.  OTOH, it does bear some resemblance
> to some other oopses floating around.  Did you solve this one?

I've not seen this ever again after some point, and don't recall enough
of the context/etc. to say much about what was going on with it.


-- wli