Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 Version: 2.6.26-13lenny2 Severity: important Tags: patch
Overtime any system with NFS usage grinds to a crawl. While root or /usr on NFS are most affected the same problem should affect other NFS usage. The symptoms are extremely high system load, taking 20 minutes to open/close applications, taking half a minute to create the menu on right click in KDE, becoming unusable for 5 minutes while rebuilding menus in KDE, etc. This is reported multiple times versus other packages elsewhere (mostly KDE due to the idiotic way it builds its menus). The reason seems to be: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=commitdiff&h=23918b03060f6e572168fdde1798a905679d2e06 discussed here: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.2/00418.html On the positive side this made me find out that a whole bunch of programs are coded with the left foot. This patch needs to be retrofitted into the kernel to make it usable again for anyone using NFS and especially diskless clients. Otherwise, nfs in current kernel is unusable. After waiting for 30 minutes for tex to update its map on an otherwise fast machine I downgraded all of my diskless clients to 2.6.18 -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92o tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 recommends: ii libc6-i686 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 suggests: ii grub 0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v ii lilo 1:22.8-7 LInux LOader - The Classic OS load pn linux-doc-2.6.26 <none> (no description available) -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
