On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:02:03PM +1100, Danny Yee wrote:
> I seem to have locked up NFS on my server so badly I can't shut it down.
>
> I've killed everything else (rpc.mountd, etc.), but the four nfsd
> processes won't respond in any way:
>
> root 24751 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/0 DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd
> root 24752 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/0 DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd
> root 24754 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/0 DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd
> root 24756 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/0 DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd
>
> I'm running nfs-utils-0.1.9.1-1 on Redhat Linux (half way between
> 6.1 and 6.2). Any ideas about solutions to this less drastic than
> rebooting the machine?
apply the nfs patches to your kernel, before you reboot
nfs.sourceforge.net (iirc)
stock 2.2 kernel has many nfs bugs. these patches (server side and
client side) help greatly
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