> On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 04:18:55PM +0100, Trond Myklebust
> wrote:
>> >>>>> " " == Tonglu Yi <tlyi@126.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi: My system is redhat 6.0 on a PC. NFS can't work. when i
>> > run `df' , it can not terminate. and display this error:
>> > nfs: task 24 can't get a request slot
>>
>> This means that the RPC socket is congested. Could you use
>> 'tcpdump' to check whether there are any NFS packets being sent
>> when this happens?
> [...]
> I have had that recently with all 2.2 kernels up to 2.2.12-20
> (RH 5.2, RH 6.0, RH 6.1). Most of the time, the server was not
> so loaded (in fact, other machines had no trouble with
> it). What is sure is that the client could not recover from
> that situation.
The issue of congestion control is being improved in the 2.3.x
series. The new code is also available for 2.2.x as part of the NFSv3
client patches.
Cheers,
Trond
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