Re: your mail

Dave Airlie (airlied@rowan.ece.ul.ie)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:29:42 +0000 (GMT)


Thanks, I've just gotten it to crash now ... will investigate it later
thanks for the report ..

Dave.

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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Chris Evans wrote:

> > Hi Dave, > > I just tried your NFS/TCP patch against 2.2.0p6. > > Not much success I am afraid. Here is what I tried and what happened > > 1) mount with flags "rsize=16384,wsize=16384,tcp,intr,nolock" > > Try make -j 32 of linux kernel across localhost, using userland NFS > server. > > Result: lasts about 1 sec. Spits out "RPC: empty TCP record". All > processes hang in D state (at shutdown lots of unpleasant RPC messages > show up) > > I suggest you try the above stability test - localhost is a very fast > transport to help expose those races. A make -j 32 is massively parallel, > and a kernel build involves a good deal of reading and writing. > > > 2) mount with flags and localhost server as above, expect let rsize and > wsize default. > > Tried: make clean on same linux source tree > > Result: Process hangs in D state. > > > Cheers > Chris >

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