Re: Big trouble with nfs
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:12:55PM +0200, Markus.Grunwald@pruftechnik.com wrote:
> My big problem is, that sometimes (mostly when lots of data is
> transferred, like during linking a big project) a process that wants
> to access data from /home gets into state "D uninterruptible sleep"
I see this a LOT with USB drives. I had so many problems with it that I
moved all my USB drive enclosures to a dedicated box.
I've done a few things that seem to have helped:
1. Upgrading to kernel-image >= 2.6.10 on the host server.
2. Mounting the exported partition synchronously.
3. Explicitly setting the export as synchronous.
The server still occasionally needs rebooting, but the client can
usually be fixed with a simple remount to refresh the stale NFS file
handles.
Hope this helps.
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