NFS deadlock

From: Jaco Kroon (jkroon_at_cs.up.ac.za)
Date: 05/18/04

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To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

    Hello there

    I've once again got problems with the kernel locking up. I'm now
    convinced that it has something to do with NFS.

    Previously weve had 2 machines that locked up, plus my one at home,
    resulting in three machines. Sometimes they would recover by themselves
    after some time, other times they could be left for 2 days or so without
    recovering. All three of these use NFS to export files to other
    machines, it's the only thing we can find they have in common, other
    that x86 architecture, but then other machines would be dying as well.
    It should be noted that none of these runs on the newest hardware, but
    that should not matter, neither does any of our other servers. We have
    a 3rd NFS server, which doesn't take nearly as heavy load via NFS. I've
    been wondering why it hasn't locked up either, and this morning (right
    now in fact) it has decided that it is it's turn and is currently unusable.

    If anybody else is experiencing similar problems, or have possible work
    arounds, it would be appreciated if you could share your knowledge.

    Jaco

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