From: Michael Buesch Subject: Re: processes stuck in D state Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 19:31:00 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <200305061931.14023.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.173.58]) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19D6Ks-0005TT-00 for ; Tue, 06 May 2003 10:34:38 -0700 To: pwitting@Cyveillance.com In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 May 2003 19:09, pwitting@Cyveillance.com wrote: > Actually, I have seen this on the server before, specifically > When using an older version of IBM's JFS for Linux with RH 7.3 I'm running ext3 on the server. > I worked with the JFS team and JFS v1.1.0 and kernel 2.4.20 > seemed to stabilize it, at least I've seen no more "freezes" > as a result. server-kernel is 2.4.21-pre6. > Judging by your mail address this might be your > problem as well. You refer to the "fs" in my e-mail address? :) The "fs" stands for "FreeSoftware". > One noticeable symptom is that cd'ing to an affected dir and > attempting an ls would also freeze (I had a large (20GB+) file > copy going, so I usually knew what the affected dir was. > > Two other things that helped: > 1) increasing the # of nfs threads (120 or more) > 2) ensuring the uid/gid the remote thread was using existed on > the server. (sounds stupid but it helped) > > neither "cured" the issue, but it went from being reproducible > to being occasional. > > Good Luck. thanks. :) =2D --=20 Regards Michael B=FCsch http://www.8ung.at/tuxsoft 19:26:58 up 3:18, 2 users, load average: 1.01, 1.08, 1.05 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+t/FhoxoigfggmSgRAqgLAJ9hGo5l2c1y/oiZxamh/M88avZYIwCggzTc lgyMmTHSGnxK17Xfq1Vb/eg=3D =3DNi5P =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs