[CentOS] NFS sleepy woes

Sun Jul 3 03:08:09 UTC 2005
Res <res at ausics.net>

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 16:59 +1000, Res wrote:

>> I have a problem with a CentOS 4 and now updated to 4.1 server,
>> every so often the other servers try to contact it and this not there a
>> retry and it is, like it goes to sleep, I have no problem with the
>> fedora1, RH9 and slackware machines they just never do this.

> I haven't seen this issue ... but it might actually be sleeping.
>
> CentOS-4 uses a 2.6.9-x kernel that is much better at doing what your
> BIOS says for power saving mode than 2.4 kernels were.  I would first
> check the sleep settings in the BIOS of the problem machine.
>
> If that doesn't work, you try turning off the apmd and acpid services.

that unfortunately means teh system wont  do a real poweroff if the UPS 
instructs it to.

dropped down to  2.4.31 kernel and the problem seems to have gone away
so I think your right, its the 2.6.x kernel doing what it should, 
regrettably we dont want it to :)

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Cheers
Res