Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-12 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:28:40AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: How fast are your systems, speaking of which? I live in the world of 300-500 mhz machines at work, and 300-800 mhz boxes at home. If you're using multi-ghz boxes, that could well be the distinguishing factor between our

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-12 Thread Tim Middleton
On November 11, 2003 11:36 pm, Janet Sullivan wrote: So far I only have problems in a mixed -STABLE/-CURRENT environment. When the client server are both -CURRENT I haven't had any problems. I just installed another -STABLE box to see if keeping them both -STABLE helps. I haven't really

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Tim Middleton wrote: On November 11, 2003 11:36 pm, Janet Sullivan wrote: So far I only have problems in a mixed -STABLE/-CURRENT environment. When the client server are both -CURRENT I haven't had any problems. I just installed another -STABLE box to see if keeping

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-11 Thread Tim Middleton
On November 10, 2003 12:44 pm, Soren Schmidt wrote: For me its just the server end that fails, I've not seen the client hang. I'm having a bad NFS day... not sure if it is the same lockups described in this thread. In fact perhaps I'm posting to the wrong group since the server in questoin is

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-11 Thread Claus Guttesen
Hi. I can lock the NFS server up every time simply by mounting the nfs partition (i'm using -t for tcp nfs and exporting with -maproot=0:0), and then running iozone -a on the nfs client box. It takes a while, but the 4.9-RELEASE box will always lock up solid eventually. Not good. )-:

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-11 Thread Don Lewis
On 31 Oct, Kelley Reynolds wrote: --- Original Message --- From: Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:55:49 + To: Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Still gettnig NFS client locking up Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Soren Schmidt wrote:

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-11 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Tim Middleton wrote: The server is a P3-1ghz Intel STL2 box, with 1 gig of ram. Using the onboard fxp ethernet at 100baseTX. It is not using dhcp. Nothing much else is running on this server box as I'm just testing it. When the server locks the box can not even be pinged.

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-11 Thread Janet Sullivan
I'm not having any problems with my -CURRENT client. My server is running 4.9-STABLE, so I can't comment on the state of the NFS server code in -CURRENT. For what it's worth, my NFS usage is not very heavy, and is mostly reading, with very little writing. So far I only have problems in a mixed

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-10 Thread Matt Smith
With a current build from november the 9th I am still getting exactly the same NFS lockups. I assume soren is as well. NFS has basically been pretty unusable now for over a month. As only a couple of people have complained about this from what I can see I assume it is something related to

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Matt Smith wrote: With a current build from november the 9th I am still getting exactly the same NFS lockups. I assume soren is as well. NFS has basically been pretty unusable now for over a month. Yes I do, NFS is virtually useless... As only a couple of people have complained

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-10 Thread Kelley Reynolds
--- Original Message --- From: Soren Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:03:47 +0100 (CET) To: Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Still getting NFS client locking up It seems Matt Smith wrote: With a current build from november the 9th I am still getting exactly

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-10 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Matt Smith wrote: With a current build from november the 9th I am still getting exactly the same NFS lockups. I assume soren is as well. NFS has basically been pretty unusable now for over a month. As only a couple of people have complained about this from what I can

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-10 Thread Matt Smith
Robert Watson wrote: I'm fairly baffled. I tried for many hours to reproduce the problem in two seperate sets of systems here, and completely failed. I left buildworlds, cvs updates, blah blah blah, running for 96 hours across pools of clients and servers and no hint of the problem. I also

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-10 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Robert Watson wrote: How fast are your systems, speaking of which? I live in the world of 300-500 mhz machines at work, and 300-800 mhz boxes at home. If you're using multi-ghz boxes, that could well be the distinguishing factor between our configurations... Server is 533MhzVIA C3,

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-11-10 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Matt Smith wrote: I can certainly spend some time trying to get some proper debug based on what you have said in your email. I shall look into setting up a serial console etc. In the meantime another piece of information which might be helpful is this. Looking at the

Re: Still getting NFS client locking up

2003-10-31 Thread Kelley Reynolds
--- Original Message --- From: Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:55:49 + To: Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Still gettnig NFS client locking up Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Soren Schmidt wrote: I'm now running a kernel/world of October