Re: NFS clients Oops (frequently)

[Bill Hoover <hoover deadmoose com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:28 +0200, Leroy van Logchem wrote:
> Quite often (more 1 per day) our NFS clients oops so we installed the 
> netdump service to recieve details.
> The nodes are plain Intel mainboards with Pentium4 3.40GHz running root 
> NFS mounted,
> booted via pXe. All nodes have 4GB aboard (3.3GB usable), use a local 
> 4GB swapfile.
> So far no method to trigger the oops.

>From a quick glance, I'd guess you are getting bitten by:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173843

(the details of the real problem are in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/20/303 )

It has gotten bad enough on my machines with a recent set of jobs that I
am almost ready to see about patching the kernel myself to correct this
problem.