This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------6FB57B9D417D8B163E9CA24F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -- Juergen Goetz Tel: 049-(0)9127-951304 iSi-Systems GmbH Fax: 049-(0)9127-951305 Rothenburgerstraße 51 <A HREF="http://www.isi-systems.de"><A HREF="http://www.isi-systems.de</A">http://www.isi-systems.de</A</A>> 90614 Ammerndorf, Germany <A HREF="mailto:goetz@isi-systems.de">mailto:goetz@isi-systems.de</A> --------------6FB57B9D417D8B163E9CA24F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="ttt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="ttt" Hi, i have a strange problem with NFSD/MOUNTD (so do i think) on my computers. The situation is: 1: 5 PCs connected via ethernet, 4 as clients 1 as server (to hold data on the large HD. The 4 clients are named client1 to client4 and do heavily write data into many files each (data now is about 1.6 GB for the four clients, with about 300 files written from each client with some files larger than 50 MB). 2: on the server /etc/exports looks like client* /clients/data (rw) 3: the sub-directories on the server are divided in /clients/data/client1/..... /clients/data/client2/..... /clients/data/client3/..... /clients/data/client4/..... 4: on all PCs Linux kernel 1.2.13 is running. I cant / do not want to change the version, because i have rather old software needing static libs and progs. Really i cant change :-(. 5: the clients mount to the server with mount -t nfs -o rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,retry=100,noac,intr server:/clients/data/client[x] /mydata 6: there is a prog installed on the server, which strips off older lines from the log-files to avoid HD-overflow. This is done by moving each single file to /tmp, throwing old lines away and moving the resulting file back to /clients/data/client[x]/..... The deleting program is involved by a script, which does a "sync;sync" before and after calling the deleting process. While deleting the log-files the 4 clients still continue writing to the server. Now what happens: After the deleting program / script running a while the four clients cant write to the server any more, hanging somehow. The writing process on each client does not work anymore, although mounted with "soft" option. You can "ping" to the server, but not "telnet" and there is no possibility to work on the server, because keyboard-input is not accepted. The are no entries on the server in .../messages or ..../syslog. The only way to work on the server again is to boot. I cant help myself. Perhaps somebody knows what to do / try. Would by nice to EMAIL me. goetz@isi-systems.de --------------6FB57B9D417D8B163E9CA24F--