>>>>> " " == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> The config: 2.3.99-pre9-pre2, Dual P-II w/ minimal IDE/NFS/NFS
> server kernel configuration.
> The problem is the same as observed and reported recently,
> though it occurs with _much_ less frequency: when doing an
> mmap-heavy operation over NFS (Netscape Mail compressing mail
> folders, for me), netscape gets stuck in disk wait state.
> Other attempts to access files on the same mount point ("cat
> ~/.bash_profile") similarly hang in disk wait.
> This happened to me on pre9-1 and now pre9-2 as well.
> Unfortunately it is not easily reproducable, and might be due
> to a race which appears only on SMP boxes.
Stuck in wait_on_page you mean? What does tcpdump say?
Cheers,
Trond
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