On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 12:28 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.3-amd64 > Version: 2.6.32-9~bpo50+1 > Severity: important > > On pettersson.debian.org we're running the official Debian CD > builds. The final step of this process involves copying hundreds of > gigabytes of data over NFS to a Solaris server. Under this heavy NFS > load, kernel 2.6.32 repeatably hangs; I/O stops and the system > eventually becomes non-responsive. Log attached showing the kernel > reports. We've tried UDP and TCP for the NFS connection, and different > values for the rsize and wsize. No noticeable effect. > > Under 2.6.26 the exact same copy process runs reliably. > > If there's anything more we can do to help diagnose this, just let us > know.
Several deadlock bugs in the NFS client were fixed in 2.6.32.11, which is included in Debian's 2.6.32-11. Please can you test whether the current version from sid fixes the problem on pettersson? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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