Re: nfsd oops with 2.6.5-rc2-mm4

[Frank Denis]

Dieter Stueken wrote:
> was some exported directory quite big?

Yes, some exported directories contains a lot of small files.

> What nfs version
> are you using? You may try "mount -o nfsvers=2 ..." or 3.

Version 3. I can give version 2 a try but there will probably a 
significant loss of performance :(

> My own Oops seems to be reproducible when using a Sun (2.8) as
> client, only.

There actually 10 clients, 9 are Linux 2.6.2-rc2-mm2, 1 is indeed a 
Solaris 2.8 box.

> It did not occur when using nfsV2. I also failed
> to reproduce the bug when mounting by an other Linux client.

Unfortunately this is a production environment and I can hardly switch 
the Solaris box off in order to make it sure that it is triggering the bug.

> So may be we observe two different bugs here.

Your situation looks similar.

I reverted to 2.6.2-rc2-mm3, the server didn't crash after 6 hours. 
Crossing fingers...
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