Hi, all. Just noticed this with 2.4.20-pre6 (and -pre7): NFS write
sometimes (usually) stalls for minutes at a time. This problem wasn't
there on 2.4.19. I've noticed this when writing a files around 1 MiB
or so (some a bit larger, some a bit smaller). It makes NFS almost
unusable. I've appended the kernel logs which come, at no extra
charge, with the problem. On the server, I see partial files (integral
number of wsize= blocks) during the stall. Eventually, the client
seems to recover and the rest of the file is written. The writing
application is in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE state.
Regards,
Richard....
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On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 23:54, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Hi, all. Just noticed this with 2.4.20-pre6 (and -pre7): NFS write
> sometimes (usually) stalls for minutes at a time. This problem wasn't
> there on 2.4.19. I've noticed this when writing a files around 1 MiB
> or so (some a bit larger, some a bit smaller). It makes NFS almost
> unusable. I've appended the kernel logs which come, at no extra
I've reported the same to Marcelo. Its there in a slightly different
form in my case - low bandwidth streaming data shows it up very well.
On 17 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 23:54, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Hi, all. Just noticed this with 2.4.20-pre6 (and -pre7): NFS write
> > sometimes (usually) stalls for minutes at a time. This problem wasn't
> > there on 2.4.19. I've noticed this when writing a files around 1 MiB
> > or so (some a bit larger, some a bit smaller). It makes NFS almost
> > unusable. I've appended the kernel logs which come, at no extra
>
> I've reported the same to Marcelo. Its there in a slightly different
> form in my case - low bandwidth streaming data shows it up very well.
This may explain why my favorite Internet radio station is acting up.
--
bill davidsen <[email protected]>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
> Hi, all. Just noticed this with 2.4.20-pre6 (and -pre7): NFS write
> sometimes (usually) stalls for minutes at a time. This problem wasn't
Richard,
Does the appended patch make a difference?
Cheers,
Trond
Trond Myklebust writes:
> > Hi, all. Just noticed this with 2.4.20-pre6 (and -pre7): NFS write
> > sometimes (usually) stalls for minutes at a time. This problem wasn't
>
> Richard,
> Does the appended patch make a difference?
Monday afternoon (my time) I grabbed the current BK tree and have been
using it since then. The problem has been reduced. I thought it was
fixed, but just as I sent this message, I tried my little test again,
and in one of the three runs I had a 21 second stall. I waited a few
minutes between tests.
Is your patch meant for the latest BK tree? Or something older?
Regards,
Richard....
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Current: [email protected]
>>>>> " " == Richard Gooch <[email protected]> writes:
> Monday afternoon (my time) I grabbed the current BK tree and
> have been using it since then. The problem has been reduced. I
> thought it was fixed, but just as I sent this message, I tried
> my little test again, and in one of the three runs I had a 21
> second stall. I waited a few minutes between tests.
> Is your patch meant for the latest BK tree? Or something older?
The patch should apply fine to the latest BK tree: there have been no
recent changes that might affect it.
Cheers,
Trond
Trond Myklebust writes:
> >>>>> " " == Richard Gooch <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Monday afternoon (my time) I grabbed the current BK tree and
> > have been using it since then. The problem has been reduced. I
> > thought it was fixed, but just as I sent this message, I tried
> > my little test again, and in one of the three runs I had a 21
> > second stall. I waited a few minutes between tests.
>
> > Is your patch meant for the latest BK tree? Or something older?
>
> The patch should apply fine to the latest BK tree: there have been no
> recent changes that might affect it.
Well, your patch doesn't make things worse. I tried to reproduce the
problem again, but couldn't. I'm running 2.4.20-pre8 plus your patch,
and will keep an eye on it.
Regards,
Richard....
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