From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: Temporary NFS problem when rpciod is SIGKILLed
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:36:49 +0300
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On Monday 25 October 2004 17:41, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> m? den 25.10.2004 Klokka 17:02 (+0300) skreiv Denis Vlasenko:
> 
> > I am using NFS root. At shutdown, when I kill
> > all processes with killall5 -9, NFS temporarily
> > misbehaves. I narrowed it down to rpciod feeling
> > bad when signalled with SIGKILL:
> 
> That is a deliberate feature. It is useful when mountpoints hang etc.
> 
> Note however that the patches that convert rpciod to use a workqueue
> (they can be found in the latest -mm kernels) remove this feature.

I've tried 2.6.9-mm1, it does not exhibit this anomaly.

Thanks!
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vda

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