To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.17.8] NFS stall / BUG in UDP fragment processing / SKB trimming
References: <87zme9fy94.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:17:11 +0100
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On 12 Aug 2006, nix@esperi.org.uk mused:
> Then the build froze. I couldn't very well ignore *that*. Perhaps I
> couldn't blame XEmacs after all.

It just happened again. It's reproducibly triggered, at least on this
system, by the ocaml-3.09.02 configure script running over NFS (probably
NFS over UDP is necessary as well).

In theory I could now use this to minimise the problem, but the sheer
number of reboots this is likely to need is dissuading me: I'll put it
off until someone actually wants such a minimal crash case :)

-- 
`We're sysadmins. We deal with the inconceivable so often I can clearly 
 see the need to define levels of inconceivability.' --- Rik Steenwinkel
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