js> Hi,
js> I've been running the 2.1.60 kernel on a dual Pent II system for
js> several days now and I have noticed a possibly related problem with NFS.
js> The NFS server is a BSDI/3.0 box. I don't have his problems with startup
js> of nfs, but I have had the same problem with an nfs intensive writes
js> causeing a process to get stuck.
js> Senerio:
js> 1) Running X, use Netscape for awhile (my home directory is NFS'd
js> so my netscape cache is over nfs). After switching to a new page with
js> lots of grphics netscape hangs.
js> 2) checking it with ps -l, I see it is stuck in 'nfs_delete' in
js> the 'D' state. I think the function name is cut off by the limited field
js> size, from looking at the source I think it is nfs_delete_inode() in
js> fs/nfs/inode.c.
Same happened to me when testing NFS throughput with bonnie after the
message ""NFS: invalidating pending RPC requests" and "NFS: inode had
failed requests".
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