On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:02:20PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote:I've been using NFS here for years, lately there's something odd going on since about a month or so. Previously reported last month:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/951419?page=last
Now with 2.6.27-rc3 on one of the client boxes I get a complete stall at odd times when accessing the server's exported directory, cannot see a pattern to it. Eventually recovers after a Ctrl-C. Nothing in the server or client log files. Not easy to reproduce either.
I wonder if this is what I've been seeing. I've been otherwise too
busy to properly report it, thinking that *someone* else must also be
seeing it and it's being worked on, else it's a subtle configuration
problem my end.
I first started seeing this with 2.6.26 on the client end,