Re: knfsd 980922
H.J. Lu (hjl@lucon.org)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 11:44:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
> G. Allen Morris III wrote:
>
> > I tried running `dd' the other day and it did hang. `ps' said that
> > it was hung in `end'. The input Q was close ot 64k and the output
> > Q was 8k less.
> >
> > Now that I have a few seconds I have tried it again, but can't get it
> > to fail. Has anyone else tried this.
>
> I tried running lots of dd commands in a loop and eventually got a failure, with
> lots of "RPC task timed out" messages in the log. The server tasks weren't
> responding, and killing and restarting the nfsd tasks didn't help.
>
> Not sure yet what the problem is -- will try to track it down.
>
net/sunrpc doesn't deal with failure/timed out very well. I fixed
a few bugs in my knfsd package. There may be more bugs like that in
sunrpc/nfsd. I will take a look when I find time.
--
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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