Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:48:35 +0300 | From | VDA <> | Subject | Re: nfs client serious problems under 2.2.20pre8/9 |
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Tuesday, September 04, 2001, 6:18:49 AM, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote: EB> I have encountered a serious problem with nfs under 2.2.20pre8 and EB> pre9. EB> after some ammount of time (2 weeks under pre8, only a few hours under EB> pre9) most/all processes accessing an nfs filesystem go into EB> unkillable disk sleep, and the kernel starts spewing: EB> EB> kernel: nfs: task 22509 can't get a request slot EB> EB> over and over again endlessly. since processes using the filesystem EB> are unkillable i am unable to even forcabily umount the problematic EB> filesystem, seemingly the only way restore order is shutdown -r now :(
Looks like another argument against hard NFS mounts to me. Does anybody knows why NFS hard mounts exist? Is there any case when intr mounts is worse than hard ones? -- Best regards, VDA mailto:VDA@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua http://port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua/vda/
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