> So my (blunt?) conclusion is that there must be some serious
> problems with RPC/NFS (I guess RPC) and 2.4 SMP kernels! (and
> lots of processes doing NFS stuff)
> Anyone any thoughts on this? My kernel hacking knowledge is
> limited, but I'm willing to test patches :)
Could you try out the patch
http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.3/linux-2.4.3-rpc_smpfixes.dif
and see if it changes things?
The latter straightens out a number of iffy locking issues in the
net/sunrpc/xprt.c
Most of it will only hit you if you're doing NFS over TCP though...
Cheers,
Trond
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