Re: NFS/MOUNT/sunrpc problem?

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Marco Bertoncin <- Sun Microsystems UK - Platform OS Development Engineer <Marco.Bertoncin@xxxxxxx>> writes:


     > switch.  How to reproduce
     > - During install a MOUNT (V2) request is sent to the install
     >   server
     > - the ACK is dropped
     > Symptom
     > - the blade, after 3 seconds, starts a storm of retransmit
     >   (MOUNT reqs) that
     > won't stop, unless an ACK (one of the several ACKS sent for
     > each retransmitted requests) has the chance to get
     > through. This is sometimes after a few hundreds packets,
     > sometimes after a lot more, causing an apparent hang of the
     > installation process, and what's even worse, bringing to a
     > grinding halt the server (bombarded by near 1Gbit/sec packets).

Have you tried a more recent kernel? 2.4.18 was released more than one
and a half years ago...

Cheers,
  Trond
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