Re: NFS Mounted Home Directories Machine Keeps Locking Up
In article <[🔎] 1031600586.844.12.camel@debian1>,
Charlie Grosvenor <charliemail@cgrosvenor.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi
> I have set up NFS mounted home directories on my machines. On my server
>machine I am using the kernel NFS server, and am running Debian woody.
>The nfs exports file looks like:
>
>What happens quite often is that the application that i am using e.g X
>or bash lock up. The only way to fix the problem is to kill the
>applications or to restart the machine. If I restart the machine on
>restart i get the following sort of messages:
>
>nfs: task 419 can't get a request slot
First, NFS is pretty sensitive to packet loss. If you have an
overloaded 10 mbit/sec non-switched network NFS will hickup often.
Second, I never trusted the NFS kernel server until the 2.4.18
or 2.4.19 kernel - it now seems stable, I'm running it in
production on our servers without any troubles.
So if you're still on a 2.2 kernel try a 2.4.<latest> one
Mike.
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