Re: 2.4.31 hangs, no information on console or serial port

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:24:10AM -0500, David Golombek wrote:
> We're beginning to suspect that a hung loopback NFS mount might be to
> blame, although we can't reproduce this trivially.  Is there anyway in
> which a mount that was behaving badly could affect the kernel in this
> manner?

Loopback NFS can deadlock in trying to free memory when writing back dirty 
pages.  Use mount --bind instead.

		-ben
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