Hello list, I have a problem with an NFS server for my network. It has ran kernels 2.4.18-ac4 - 2.4.21-ac1, all with problems. The -ac patches are used to provide the new style quota support. The system seems to have gotten even less stable with the new kernel versions. This morning around 5 am, I got a page the system was unresponding to NFS requests. I ssh'd in, and found the loadavg at ~50. Below are some snippets from ps at the time: root 3414 0.8 0.1 3904 3048 ? DN 04:02 1:45 /usr/bin/updatedb -f NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,PROC,DEVPTS -e /tmp,/var/tmp,/us root 3979 0.0 0.0 2588 1192 ? DN 04:14 0:00 /usr/bin/rsync -aH --delete /home/puser1 /home/puser2 /home/puser3 The rsync command is backing up across the network to a backup nfs server. updatedb starts at 4:02 am, and the rsync had been running since 3:30 and was half-way completed (estimated by the 'p' in the uername). Also there were 32 nfsd's just like this: root 851 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? DW Jun19 4:35 [nfsd] and these, the other 4 kjournald's were in SW. root 7 0.1 0.0 0 0 ? DW Jun19 17:04 [kswapd] root 144 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? DW Jun19 6:53 [kjournald] I'm wondering what my options are, this has happened ~10 times in the last 6 months, although the system went a period of ~120 days without a hiccup. This last time on 2.4.21-ac1 was only 6 days. It wouldn't be so bad if a `shutdown -r now` would restart it, but it hangs while shutting down nfs and during killall and needs hard rebooted. Thanks for any insight or solutions. Dale __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
