4.0.3 NFS lockup: summary

From: Ed Arnold (era@niwot.scd.ucar.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 10 1990 - 12:51:45 CDT

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A while back, I posted an inquiry about lockup of the NFS daemons on
a 4/280 running 4.0.3. This lockup seemed to be provoked by an IBM RS/6000
that was writing into one of the 280's filesystems. The NFS Jumbo Patch
did not cure the problem.

I subsequently learned of a patch known as "nfs_dw", a changed ufs_bmap.o
module, which fixes a problem with nfsd hanging on a memory page
that never gets unlocked due to a bug. This information was provided
by Hal Stern of Sun (halstern@sun.com).

era@ncar.ucar.edu

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