Re: NFS in 2.4.8/9ac

[Alan Cox]

> > eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:50:35:C2, IRQ 10
> > (Tulip FA310TX card)

Same as mine

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

Thats the NFS backlog filling. That itself does not indicate a problem of
any kind just congestion - which if the card is getting tx timeouts and
watchdog errors would be reasonable

> 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.

Well 2.4.2 is in my prehistory pile. I dont know if this has been fixed
or is known - Jeff Garzik may do.

Alan