Bug 22992

Summary:	Home directory mounted over NFS causes multiple applications to hang waiting for locks.
Product:	File System	Reporter:	Richard Connon (richard)
Component:	NFS	Assignee:	Trond Myklebust (trondmy)
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	high	CC:	alan, kernel
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328475
Kernel Version:	2.6.34 and higher	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	Strace output from firefox

Description Richard Connon 2010-11-15 13:15:50 UTC

With a home directory mounted using NFSv3 I find that several applications hang during an fcntl syscall.

Notable examples in my setup are firefox and thunderbird.

I have attached strace output of firefox exhibiting this behaviour.

Comment 1 Richard Connon 2010-11-15 13:16:17 UTC

Created attachment 37262 [details]
Strace output from firefox