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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Gabor Kovacs <kgabor@bolyai.elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: User process freezes on NFSv4 client
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:54:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070902045401.1b8a347c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708161819.14437.kgabor@bolyai.elte.hu>

> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:19:14 -0400 Gabor Kovacs <kgabor@bolyai.elte.hu> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've got NFSv4 problems on a big partition. Both NFS server and client run 
> kernel version 2.6.21.6. Exported file system is on an AoE etherdrive 
> (/dev/etherd/e1.1) device, having no partition table, XFS file system. The 
> file system is pretty large,  8.9T. Typical file size 1-10M. 
> 
> On the client side, after much time (3-7 days) of file intensive task, the 
> user process freezes. Top command shows a "D" state for it, but many other 
> command trying to "touch" it, freezes, too. (ps, fuser /nfs_dir, w) None of 
> the frozen processes can be killed. New processes, however, can access the 
> nfs4 mounted file system. Any idea?
> 

Next time it happens, please run

	echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger

then send the output of `dmesg -s 1000000'.  Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-02 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-16 22:19 Gabor Kovacs
2007-09-02 11:54 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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