Simon Andrews <simon.andrews <at> bbsrc.ac.uk> writes: > ... > > > >> It looks like the nfs daemon is caching write data (around 2GB of it) > >> which lets scp think its finished when actually there's loads of data > >> sitting in a write buffer. The hanging is presumably the time it takes > >> to flush the buffer (there is a process called nfsiod which is active > >> during this time and df shows data is still being written). > > ... > ... > $ ps aux | grep -i nfsiod > root 8974 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Sep27 0:15 [nfsiod] > > Where the parent process is kthread. > > Simon. This is from HP Tru64 UNIX. $ man 8 nfsiod http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51_HTML/MAN/MAN8/0043____.HTM JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines