From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fk0FO-0006Fm-8q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 May 2006 14:58:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4REwIZb024776; Sat, 27 May 2006 14:58:18 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4REwHwI015901 for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 14:58:17 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so435537ugd for ; Sat, 27 May 2006 07:58:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; b=W7YxMRRrseIuazXIbPTNGS/0UCyJWZceXmG7ZVGluRgJLTwXPDU2fTHsVJpV4O/UfoIRyyFtGi1UltZvuG/3nlP7tXuPdY544YMDg9RjdU167KcVCuZJQU3LWD+Tt0NIdH11DNkFQnCIHCr0K0d7/A9pcB8wOTbw55EFI4RZwn0= Received: by 10.67.15.3 with SMTP id s3mr411659ugi; Sat, 27 May 2006 07:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?196.23.241.193? ( [196.23.241.193]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id k2sm1632672ugf.2006.05.27.07.58.13; Sat, 27 May 2006 07:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44786901.60603@computer.org> Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 16:58:09 +0200 From: Andrew Gaylard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060503 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] NFS Server References: <200605270008.49558.gentoo@huskydog.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200605270008.49558.gentoo@huskydog.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: Andrew Gaylard X-Archives-Salt: 60c05c3f-eb04-4867-9d1c-05c3c2b55d29 X-Archives-Hash: f5a200695960932e5329b905963c91ee Richard Simpson wrote: >Has anyone else had trouble with NFS serving since upgrading to a recent >kernel or compiler? > >I just tried upgrading to vanilla-sources 2.6.15.1. All seemed well, until my >diskless mythtv system started crashing. It would appear to be an NFS >problem. NFS works fine for a while, but after 10 to 15 minutes it locks up. >This may be a function of the amount of data transfered. I also see problems >when I mount NFS exports from the Alpha on my i386 SuSE 10.0 system. > >Fearing a problem with the kernel version I tried to build a new version of >the old kernel (2.6.12.5), since I needed to add RAID. Bizarely and >worryingly, this gives the same error. This suggests that something else has >changed and the only thing I can think of is the compiler, which I have >probably upgraded since I built the working kernel. > >Has anyone got a reliable Alpha NFS server with a recently built kernel and if >so which kernel and compiler versions did you use. > > I've seen exactly this problem on -2.6.15.1. I downgraded back to 2.6.11.8 and all seems well again, but I haven't done any stress-testing (yet). Andrew. -- gentoo-alpha@gentoo.org mailing list