From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Debian Bug#235886: nfs-kernel-server inducing load of 8-9 with no good reason for Linux 2.6 clients
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:49:35 +0100
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One more thing:

> Something is clearly wrong here; stopping nfs-kernel-server makes the
> load drop to zero almost immediately, and substituting nfs-user-server for
> nfs-kernel-server also fixes the problem.

This probably means the problem is in the NFSv3 client code. The major
difference between knfsd and unfsd is that the latter is v2 only.

Olaf
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