Re: NFS in 2.4.8/9ac

[Thomas Dodd]

Thomas Dodd wrote:
> I've suddenly started getting host not responding messages
> on NFS mounts. The mounts are from Solaris8 and HPUX-10.20.
> Other Solaris8 machines don't have this problem,
> and the machines serving the mounts are unloaded, and responsive.

> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre6 (July 2, 2001)
> tulip0:  MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:50:35:C2, IRQ 10
> (Tulip FA310TX card)
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> nfs: server nd not responding, still trying

Just a note: This is still a problem.
eventually I'll get a message about task slots.

It's still there through 2.4.9-ac10.

On a new Athlon 1.4 box, with a LNE100TX NIC
it's there with the default kernel from Red Hat Linux 7.1
(2.4.2-2.i686.rpm), and on a P4-1.8GHz with the same NIC.

The servers are Solaris8 and Solaris-2.6, Sparc machines, and the config
hasn't changed in over a year on the 2.6 boxes.

Anorthe system with RHL-6.2 (2.2.14-5 kernel and eepro100 NIC)
has no trouble talking to the servers.

What/how do I set debugging code on the 2.4 kernels to trak
down this problem? It makes NFS mounted home dirs unusable.

	-Thomas