Re: Is SMP stability any better?

[Keven Ring <keven@xxxxxxxxx>]

M A Young wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Keven Ring wrote:
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> > Reading the bug report, *most* people seem to think that it is related
> > to NFS/SMB mounts.  So, this morning, I NFS mounted a drive.  I'll let
> > you know in a couple of days... :)
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> More precisely it seems to be related to how often you mount and umount
> remote file systems. You might be okay with a one-off nfs mount. The bug
> still seems to be there with the 2174 FC1 kernel, though there was
> apparently another SMP bug fixed at around 2166.
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Damn it....  I was quite happy believing I was immune untill *you* 
showed up..... :)

Let's see..  Within 1 minute of starting typing the following, my uptime 
was reset to 0... :(

while (true) do
mount <nfs filesystem> <loc>
ls -alFR <loc> > /dev/null
umount <loc>
sleep 5
done

Well, at least it's repeatable... :)

> 	Michael Young
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