Ah it's not really a NFS problem.. On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 06:54:56PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > My NFSROOT box sometimes will get stuck for a dozen seconds during boot. > [snip] > The NFSROOT client that got stuck is running latest linux-next, the > server side is running 2.6.30-rc3. > > Switching the client kernel to latest -mm makes it very reproducible. > Here is another stack dump: > > [ 180.399845] udevd D ffff8800280291e0 3056 1388 1 The udevd is doing this busy loop like mad: open("/etc/group", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 7 lseek(7, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0 fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=797, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 797, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0x7f6791601000 lseek(7, 797, SEEK_SET) = 797 munmap(0x7f6791601000, 797) = 0 close(7) = 0 udev version is 0.141-1. Thanks, Fengguang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html