Re: Reproducible 2.6.11.9 NFS Kernel Crashing Bug!

[Justin Piszcz]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Lee Revell wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 05:24 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > Alan followed up with me but we did not reach any conclusion as to what
> > was causing it to crash.  The main way I got it to crash was dd
> > if=/dev/hde (root drive) of=/nfs/file.img bs=1M, I have not had any issues
> > as far as copying files and such.  For you, is it on a particular box or
> > boxes, have you tried copying the other direction?  I use NFS over UDP btw
> > (v3).
> >
> > # mount
> > mount:/disk/1 on /remote/1 type nfs
> > (rw,hard,intr,nfsvers=3,addr=192.168.168.253)
>
> Are you both using NFS + software RAID?  Is 4KSTACKS enabled?
>
> IIRC people were getting stack overflows with the NFS + RAID + 4K stacks
> combination.
>
> Lee

I was not using any type of RAID, SW or HW.
4K stacks was not enabled on either machine.

I am using XFS though.

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