On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:21:30PM +0530, Bhasker C V wrote:
> Alex
> 
>  Does dmesg give any infomation on the network like link up or down ?
>  I have seen this happening sometimes in heavy load conditions when the
> network card simply goes down
>   hardware-wise and starts flipping !
nope have seen any hardware faults, but I have just upgraded to a new nfs 
package 1:1.1.1~git-20070709-3

> 
> 
> On 8/21/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have 2 boxes, 1 is my nfs server - which hold all my home directories,
> > the
> > other is a processing machine, which loads the users home directories via
> > nfs
> >
> > my mount in the fstab
> >
> > hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au:/home/alex                     /home/alex
> > nfs
> > rw,auto,noatime,nouser,async,nodev,suid,_netdev,rsize=32768,wsize=32768
> > 0       0
> >
> >
> > what happens is after a while the nfs get locked and I get these in dmesg
> >
> > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au not responding, still trying
> > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au not responding, still trying
> > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au not responding, still trying
> > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au OK
> > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au OK
> > nfs: server hufpuf.hme1.samad.com.au OK
> >
> >
> > the only way to unlock it is to restart the nfs server and then everything
> > starts working fine ????  one other thing that is different is I have an
> > mtu of
> > 9100 between these to servers, but I have had this in place for a while.
> >
> > these are the packages installed on the server
> >
> > ii  nfs-common                  1:1.1.0-11                  NFS support
> > files
> > common to client and server
> > ii  nfs-kernel-server           1:1.1.0-11                  support for
> > NFS
> > kernel server
> >
> >
> > and on the client
> >
> > ii  nfs-common                  1:1.1.0-11                  NFS support
> > files
> > common to client and server
> > ii  nfs-kernel-server           1:1.1.0-11                  support for
> > NFS
> > kernel server
> >
> >
> > I am not sure where to start looking first as the client machine locks up
> > hard
> > till I restart the nfs........
> >
> > Alex
> >
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