In Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Alexandre BUSTICO cum veritate scripsit :
> when i do heavy io via nfs with 2.4.5 or 2.4.6-2 mdksmp kernels
> kswapd and kupdated takes all the cpu, disk activity becomes
> very high, and system freezes. When i stop the process on the client side
> which sended the data, disk activity remains high 5 ou 10 minutes
> with system frozen, and then system unblocks. top shows a load of 20 !!
>
> I have no problems with 2.4.4-6
I'm not sure but IMHO there are some nfs bux in most 2.4.5 (standard)
kernels. Maybe you should use Alan Cox' Kernels or his patches. There is
an ac-patch for 2.4.6 with about 2MB size.
Please look for notes by Alan.
Frank
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