Re: 2.2.14 kernel -- problems with NFS (and tcp?)

[Alan Cox]

> hanging every week :-).  So, can someone enlighten me as to whether the "tcp hang"
> that i've seen in some of the 2.2.15pre patch notes (thank you AC!) can bring a
> SMP box to a complete halt  (someone forget to release a spinlock?).

Thank Andrea, he figured it out.

> that these 2 problems are indeed real problems and that older kernels don't have them,
> I'll move back.  But megaraid would still need to work :-).

The TCP/SMP problem goes back to 2.1.x somewhere. It does cause complete
hangs on SMP boxes, it could be what you see under high load.

Alan