bascule wrote on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 03:02:51AM +0100 :
> the process in question is:
> 040   500 32629     1   9   0 26112 10620 lock_p D   ?          0:00 xmms
> the lock_p and D look interesting, xmms was playing files on an nfs share 

That little D is what is killing you.  When a hard nfs mount gets
interrupted, the box pretty much becomes unusable and will require a
reboot (usually just the client).  When a soft nfs mount gets
interrupted, the box can recover, but supposedly your throughput
suffers.  I just use hard nfs mounts and don't let the network go down
(yeah, believe that one...)

Blue skies...                   Todd
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