Description of problem: Booting from or installing via NFS does not work with the latest RHEL-4 kernel on the server. Clients report in install: "server not responding, still trying". Transfering lots of data to the NFS server freezes NFS after a moment and results in high load on the server. Only a restart of NFS resolved the problem for a moment. Booting kernel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL instead resolves the problem completely. The bug is similar to #152102, but the server is RHEL-4 (i686) and the clients are FC-3 (i686 and x86_64) or FC-4 (i686 and x86_64). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-11.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup NFS server with kernel-2.6.9-11.EL. 2. Transfer data to or from the server. 3. Transfer aborted. Actual results: NFS service freezes. Expected results: No freeze. Additional info:
Is there any type of error message on the server as to why it stop sending? Posting an system trace (i.e. echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger) of the server might help.
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