Re: Please try knfsd 980922

H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Thu, 24 Sep 1998 08:19:13 -0700 (PDT)

>
> First let me say that the exports improvements are extremely welcome....
>
> Unfortunately I'm seeing stability problems using a large number of client
> systems with knfs-980922. This is a cluster with 40 diskless machines... after
> about 17 of them boot, the nfs server stops responding. Each client needs
> two mounts. Originally I was running with 5 nfsds which I increased to 16
> but it didn't help.
>
> The server kernel is 2.1.122ac2 + knfsd-980922 (applied both patches). I
> have nfsd compiled into the kernel rather than as a module. Clients are
> running 2.0.35 and 2.1.117. I didn't see the problem with knfs-0.4.22 +
> 2.1.11x or knfs-980915 + 2.1.122 (didn't try 980920).
>

Please try 2.1.122 with knfsd-980922. There are no new kernel
patches from knfs-980915 to knfsd-980922. If it is the kernel NFS
server, not mountd, that stops responding, I don't think it is
knfsd-980922 who causes it.

H.J.

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