From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: nfs: task 51504 can't get a request slot
Date: 16 May 2002 12:28:48 +0200
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>>>>> " " == Steven Timm <timm@fnal.gov> writes:

     > REcently I have seen a number of nodes running Redhat 7.1 plus
     > 2.4.9-31 kernel give the above message a number of times.  Any
     > process which is trying to access nfs at the moment hangs and
     > can't be killed except by shutting down the network altogether,
     > plus the load spikes by one for each one of these processes.

Usually means there is a networking problem (more often than not a
network driver/card bug). See the FAQ on 
  http://nfs.sourceforge.net

Cheers,
  Trond

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