From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265319AbUAPHs3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:48:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265325AbUAPHs3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:48:29 -0500 Received: from dmz01.zas.gwz-berlin.de ([195.37.93.3]:39696 "HELO dmz01.zas.gwz-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265319AbUAPHsW (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:48:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4007973F.3000902@zas.gwz-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:48:15 +0100 From: Axel Beier User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: John Bradford Subject: Re: nfs version 2 access and kernel 2.6.x freeze References: <40068F6E.9060901@zas.gwz-berlin.de> <200401151313.i0FDDt1G000475@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200401151313.i0FDDt1G000475@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi John, no success. Tested with 2.6.1-mm3 and pre-emption off. System freezes after 10-20 seconds during reading data from the nfs-server. Axel John Bradford schrieb: > Quote from Axel Beier : > >>after upgrading to kernel 2.6.0 on client-side i cannot copy data from >>my (old) nfs server. The server is old (running SuSE 7.1 with a 2.4.19 >>kernel) and supports only nfs version 2. >>But with kernels 2.6.0 upto 2.6.1-mm2 after few seconds of copying a >>remote-file to the client the client hangs completely. >>Kernel was compiled with gcc 3.3.1 and has preemptive enable. > > > Try disabling pre-emption. It is known to make some hard to trigger > bugs happen much more frequently. If this appears to fix it, please > let us know. > > John. > >