Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Jan 1998 08:19:11 -0500 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: NFS lockups |
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Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > > Bill, > > I have found a way to reliably repeat the endless loop of "dentry_iput" > messages. If the machine is busy compiling a good-sized application in > one session, and I start Bonnie against a server mounted over 100BaseTx, > it will almost always trigger the fault.
Hi Steve,
Claus's patch is in 2.1.80, so that should take care of waiting for all requests to finish. Let me know otherwise ...
> Let me know when patches are available, and I'll see if I can break them > <g>. On the bright side, since you identified and fixed the problem with > sparse files over NFS I'm able to build working kernels on my Alpha in a > mounted filesystem. All along I was blaming a kernel bug and it turned > out to be corrupted object files!
Well, it was a kernel bug, just not in the Alpha code :-)
Regards, Bill
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