--Jauder
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Bill Hawes wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Put a busy mail spool on it and wait. I suspect its because the
> > lockd thread wasnt doing any kind of lock_kernel() request. This was 2.1.121
> > I'll ask the previous victim to try again with 2.1.125 (shall I ask with
> > or without HJ's patches)
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Actually lockd does do a lock_kernel when the kernel thread is
> started, so that's not the problem.
>
> Do we know what kind of locking requests the mail server is doing? I'd
> like to be able to reproduce the problem here, and setting up a "busy
> mail server" isn't very feasible for me.
>
> If you could have the original reporter try again (with or without any
> other patches), and then file an oops report or whatever if the
> problem still exists.
>
> Regards,
> Bill
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