Hi, A very short time (<100M) after reading from data stored in a fscache'd nfs (nfs3 or nfs4, doesn't matter), the cache gets disabled with something like:
+++ Jun 6 18:59:58 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.260445] Pid: 2104, comm: kslowd Not tainted 2.6.30-rc8-686 #1 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.260535] Call Trace: Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.260656] [<c917c6ee>] ? cachefiles_read_waiter+0x45/0xc0 [cachefiles] Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.260762] [<c011bce5>] ? __wake_up_common+0x34/0x59 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.260849] [<c011c5af>] ? __wake_up+0x29/0x39 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.260941] [<c0136869>] ? __wake_up_bit+0x29/0x2e Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.261151] [<c8abde27>] ? ext3_truncate+0x365/0x710 [ext3] Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.261262] [<c017b13b>] ? vmtruncate+0xf6/0x119 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.261343] [<c019c011>] ? inode_setattr+0x4b/0x11b Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.261496] [<c8abbccd>] ? ext3_setattr+0x156/0x1ab [ext3] Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.261583] [<c019c233>] ? notify_change+0x152/0x28f Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.261674] [<c01a8000>] ? block_read_full_page+0x233/0x270 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.261778] [<c917a2bc>] ? cachefiles_attr_changed+0xfb/0x156 [cachefiles] Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.261933] [<c8ff6f6c>] ? fscache_lookup_object+0xe2/0xf4 [fscache] Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262052] [<c8ff7357>] ? fscache_object_slow_work_execute+0x187/0x567 [fscache] Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262160] [<c0169f55>] ? slow_work_thread+0x264/0x3f3 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262248] [<c01368ca>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262331] [<c0169cf1>] ? slow_work_thread+0x0/0x3f3 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262412] [<c01365dc>] ? kthread+0x42/0x67 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262490] [<c013659a>] ? kthread+0x0/0x67 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262584] [<c0103ab7>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262777] CacheFiles: I/O Error: Readpage failed on backing file 40000830 Jun 6 18:59:59 syydelaervli kernel: [ 1107.262862] FS-Cache: Cache cachefiles stopped due to I/O error +++ (currently 2.6.30-rc8 686 Debian kernel image; cachefilesd 0.9-2; cache storage is a local PATA drive. Not much other system activity.) What may be strange is that I'm nfs-mounting from localhost, the exported drive is an USB disk (... and this computer only has USB 1, so I'm trying to accelerate this a bit. 750G drive on USB 1 for backup is not much fun. If fsc only accelerates the read dirvish should already run much faster ... and if fsc would run with enabled write caching ...) Just tell me if you need other data. (I'm not on the list!) cheers -- vbi -- It was a trojan now it was identified that it was that machine the trojan was not identified but it was identified as being that machine. -- Jamie the spammer, 10/29/2003 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org