Current stable tag slip status 23-Mar-2005

[Andreas Hauser]

dillon wrote @ Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:21:50 -0800 (PST):

>     NFS TCP connection failure  - still diagnosing
>         (reported by someone through Jeffrey Hsu)

That someone was probably me.

> 	The report is that a large volume of NFS operations over a TCP
> 	mount result in the TCP connection dying.  A TCP trace seems to
> 	show the TCP connection getting a FIN and resetting. 
> 
> 	We don't have any further information, so we don't know why the TCP
> 	connection was closed.  It could have been an nfsd being killed on
> 	the server, or it could have been something else.

The problems exists since month and also with a kernel from today.
The system is a VIA Epia (might be the vr0).
The cp dies with "Input/output error".


Andy