Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:39:45 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.31 hangs, no information on console or serial port |
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On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:24:10AM -0500, David Golombek wrote: > We're beginning to suspect that a hung loopback NFS mount might be to > blame, although we can't reproduce this trivially. Is there anyway in > which a mount that was behaving badly could affect the kernel in this > manner?
Loopback NFS can deadlock in trying to free memory when writing back dirty pages. Use mount --bind instead.
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