Re: [2.6.17.8] NFS stall / BUG in UDP fragment processing / SKB trimming

From: Nix
Date: Sun Aug 13 2006 - 08:27:59 EST


On 12 Aug 2006, nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 12 Aug 2006, nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx mused:
>> Then the build froze. I couldn't very well ignore *that*. Perhaps I
>> couldn't blame XEmacs after all.
>
> It just happened again. It's reproducibly triggered, at least on this
> system, by the ocaml-3.09.02 configure script running over NFS (probably
> NFS over UDP is necessary as well).

... also triggered by running a CVS update on a large tree, and pretty
much by doing anything heavy-duty with NFS on UDP at all.

NFS on TCP is, as expected, unaffected by this bug.

--
`We're sysadmins. We deal with the inconceivable so often I can clearly
see the need to define levels of inconceivability.' --- Rik Steenwinkel
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/