Yesterday I swapped my 100Mb server NICs for new Gbit NICs (RTL-8169).
I have been running lucid on 2 machines for about a month, and the last
machine was upgraded about 3 months ago.  The NIC upgrade was the only
thing that changed yesterday.  My switches are D-Link DGS-2208 (Gbit).

- When transferring files via NFS3, transfer rates run about 65Mb/s, the
*receiving* computer will lock up hard within the first minute.  There
seems to be no problems with the sending server.  This is consistent
regardless of which of my three servers are doing the sending or
receiving.

- In addition to the NFS problems everyone else is reporting here, I
also run a DRBD share between two servers, formatted with OCFS2.  After
one of the machines is rebooted, a DRBD sync is started between servers,
and again the *receiving* machine will lock up hard within the first
minute.  In drbd.conf, I have 'rate 1000M', and transfer speeds were
again around 65Mb/s at the time of lockup.  Lockup has occurred on the
receiver regardless of which server was being brought up.  I have
changed rate to 500M and will see on the next reboot if their is still a
lockup.

I think this may show that the problem is not limited to NFS transfers.
I was able to get DRBD back in sync by disconnecting the ethernet cable
until ubuntu finished booting up, then plugging in the network again.
This would lead me to believe that the problem is more likely related to
a combination of system load and network load?

Server 1:
- Linux Loki 2.6.31-16-generic-pae #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 05:20:21 UTC 2009 
i686 GNU/Linux
- 768MB ram
- AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
- DRBD / OCFS2 share

Server 2:
- Linux Eris 2.6.31-16-generic-pae #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 05:20:21 UTC 2009 
i686 GNU/Linux
- 768MB ram
- AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
- DRBD / OCFS2 share

Server 3:
- Linux Zeus 2.6.32-29-generic-pae #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 19:15:25 UTC 2011 
i686 GNU/Linux
- 1GB RAM
- AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+
- RAID10 (software) / EXT3 via NFS3 share

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Title:
  System lock-up when receiving large files (big data amount) from NFS
  server

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