[mythtv-users] slightly OT: NFS causes hard lockups

[Rudy Zijlstra]

matthew.garman at gmail.com wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:53:31PM +0100, Rudy Zijlstra wrote:
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>>Interesting. My master backend doubles as NFS server for myth, and
>>the slave backend mounts the storage over NFS, as do the
>>frontends. SW raid5 with XFS as filesystem and no problems.
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>>Which distro / kernel?
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>Gentoo and 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (i.e. stock 2.6.15 kernel with the
>gentoo patches---I'm not completely sure what all these patches are,
>although I'm sure it's documented somewhere :)
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>Do most people use vanilla (i.e. kernel.org) sources, or their
>distro-specific kernels?  (If I had to guess, I'd bet that there's a
>fairly equal mix of both.)
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>Thanks!
>Matt
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I am using vanilla kernel 2.6.12.5 on that server (slackware based).
Be aware that 2.6.15 has some NFS problems, expectations are that those 
will be solved in 2.6.16.

Rudy