Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 May 2002 18:07:06 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: ns83820 bug. [was Re: Poor NFS client performance on 2.4.18?] |
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Upgrade to 0.17 (which is in 2.4.19-pre5 or so and later) and you should find the issue resolved.
-ben
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:19:03PM -0500, Dan Yocum wrote: > Trond, et al. > > You're right, it's a driver (ns83820) issue. Strange that it only shows up > when trying to execute an app that's mounted via NFS, but, whatever. > Running apps from the the NFS volumes with the eepro100 adapter that's on > the machine works fine with the updated NFS_all patch applied. > > Thanks, again, > Dan > > > Dan Yocum wrote: > > > > Dan Yocum wrote: > > > > > > Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tuesday 7. May 2002 00:05, Dan Yocum wrote: > > > > > Trond, > > > > > > > > > > OK, so backing out the rpc_tweaks dif fixed the performance problem, > > > > > however, seems to have introduced another problem that appears to be > > > > > stemming from the seekdir.dif. Attempting to run an app from an IRIX > > > > > client (that has the 32bitclients option set) freezes the NFS volume - one > > > > > can't access it from the Linux side, anymore. > > > > > > > > > > You can read and write to the NFS volume *before* trying to run something > > > > > from there, but not after. > > > > > > > > > > Ideas? > > > > > > > > That smells like another network driver bug. Have you tcpdumped the traffic > > > > between client and server? > > > > > > Ah, that may be the case - the problem also exists with a Linux server as > > > well... let me check, and I'll let you know. > > > > I take that back - it's only hanging on the Linux server when the IRIX > > server is already hung. > > > -- > Dan Yocum > Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Fermilab 630.840.6509 > yocum@fnal.gov, http://www.sdss.org > SDSS. Mapping the Universe. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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