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Alan,
<p>On a client running all by itself on our production network overnight,
doing an "ls -lR&nbsp;/usr" and doing a compile (in a loop) is giving the
same problems.
<p>A little snipit from /var/log/messages
<br>Nov 10 04:31:20 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:33:17 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:33:17 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:34:59 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:35:04 spc81 kernel: nfs: task 20823 can't get a request slot
<br>Nov 10 04:35:35 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:35:35 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:44:43 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:44:44 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:45:56 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:46:00 spc81 kernel: nfs: task 20457 can't get a request slot
<br>Nov 10 04:46:00 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:46:03 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:49:15 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:49:15 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:49:25 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:52:21 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:53:43 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:53:43 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:54:01 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:54:02 spc81 kernel: nfs: task 64822 can't get a request slot
<br>Nov 10 04:54:13 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:54:15 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:55:57 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:55:59 spc81 kernel: nfs: task 29484 can't get a request slot
<br>Nov 10 04:56:21 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:56:23 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<br>Nov 10 04:58:15 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student not responding, still
trying
<br>Nov 10 04:58:21 spc81 kernel: nfs: task 1477 can't get a request slot
<br>Nov 10 04:58:52 spc81 kernel: nfs: task 1478 can't get a request slot
<br>Nov 10 04:59:15 spc81 kernel: nfs: server student OK
<p>Shows that under no (or little)&nbsp;load this thing is failing.
<p>We have 20 networks with ~100 machines on each with this same problem.&nbsp;
Only a few at a time are using Linux.&nbsp; We are trying to promote Linux
as a great operating system, but this is not helping.&nbsp; Again the samba
on win95 is puring along nicely plus every other service but for NFS.
<p>We have changed the NIC on this server to 3Com 3c90x for no change in
status.&nbsp; Clients are using&nbsp; CNETPro120 200 and Intel eepro100
<p>The servers are generally PIII500&nbsp; 512MB RAM.
<p>We have tried mount flags rsize=1024, 8192, 128, with no change.
<p>It looks like a server issue related to RPC.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I am only
guessing here.
<p>Any more help is much appreciated.
<p>Thanks
<p>Grahame Jordan
<br>&nbsp;
<p>Alan Cox wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>> By the evidence that we have gathered it seems
that the Server is not
<br>> taxed too much as samba users are getting files OK etc.&nbsp; The
can't get
<br>> request slot is plaguing many others in different ways.&nbsp;&nbsp;
It looks like
<br>> an NFS issue.&nbsp;&nbsp; How can this be proven?&nbsp; Then we can
work on the
<br>> problem.
<p>The request queue slot message means the server isnt responding (at
least in
<br>the eyes of the client). Given you can get into the box that isnt the
<br>net card (at least not now). What mount options do you use ?
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