Linux (Kernel-2.2.5-22) mounts a directory from SGI (IRIX 6.4). Enter the NFS mounted directory (on linux) that contains many files (in my case 3822). Do ls or echo * there. The machine almost deadlocks and all memory gets reserved -> ls and echo die saying out of memory. Kernel 2.0.36 does not have this problem. mount command on Linux says: /dev/hda1 on / type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) yyy.yyy.jyu.fi:/usr/people on /usr/people type nfs (rw,addr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) (with xxx and yyy obviously filled in)
davem and Alan Cc:ed on this one. Assigned to dledford.