Subject: Re: NFS not working...
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 12:55:59 MST
Well, the Benh kernel builds and seems to work for longer than 2.4.17 but
the ipddp support appears broken so its not much use for me. I think I'll
sit out the kernel upgrade merry-go-round for a few versions ;-)
Iain
--On Tuesday, January 01, 2002 23:23:22 -0500 Christopher Murtagh
<christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, nathan r. hruby wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Iain Stevenson wrote:
>>> I've had very bad experiences with 2.4.17 and 2.4.16 over the past two
>>> days - 2.4.17 grinds to a halt after 5 minutes! I wouldn't trust the
>>> kernel.
>>
>> Must be a ppc thing..
>>
>> [nathan@jake nathan]$ uname -a ; uptime
>> Linux jake.drama.uga.edu 2.4.16 #1 Mon Nov 26 16:26:18 EST 2001 i686
>> unknown 5:13pm up 32 days, 7:07, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.04,
>> 0.01
>
> I'm running 2.4.17pre2 on one machine and 2.4.18pre1 on another without
> any problems so far. I had problems with 2.4.17 on my Dual 800 with 1GB of
> RAM but it seems to be an issue with the 7450 processor. Since Benh made a
> few fixes (ie 2.4.18) it *seems* to be doing much better, although I
> haven't put it onto production yet. Here are the results of the stress
> test:
>
> 8:02pm up 1:08, 7 users, load average: 10.34, 9.53, 7.80
> 82 processes: 68 sleeping, 12 running, 2 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states: 66.1% user, 33.4% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
> CPU1 states: 75.1% user, 24.3% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle
> Mem: 1026464K av, 1020568K used, 5896K free, 0K shrd, 34728K buff
> Swap: 262136K av, 484K used, 261652K free 793024K
> cached
>
> It managed to do this for a couple of hours until it died when I filled
> the root fs. I re-installed and recompiled and everything has been running
> fine since then.
>
> My 2.4.17 machine is mounting nfs volumes which my 2.4.18 machine is
> serving. Try grabbing the latest kernel. Make sure you enable V3 client
> and server support when you config.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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