Re: nfs problem 2.4.19-pre9

From: Kenneth Johansson (ken@canit.se)
Date: Sat Jun 01 2002 - 14:39:21 EST


On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 21:09, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Kenneth Johansson <ken@canit.se> writes:
>
> > I have had a problem for some time that processes get stuck in
> > D state and I now have a way to get this to happen at will.
>
> > One way to do this is to copy a file from one nfs mounted
> > directory to another. It dose not happen on the same mount and
> > not when copying from nfs to a local disk. To make this even
> > more complex it works with cp and mv but not in mc(midnight
> > commander F6 ).
>
> Sounds like a network driver problem or something like that. UDP
> appears to trigger these lockups a lot more easily than does TCP.
>
> Try testing with a different brand of networking card...
>

I have three cards but they are all the same :(
3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30).

Also Why only this nfs mount. I can still telnet to other computers and
use nfs on another mount point so it's not like I lose the network.

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