On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Matthew Kent <matt at bravenet.com> wrote: > This is the exact problem we were having here. Rebooting is the only > solution. > > And as already mentioned further down the thread it was attributed to > this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453094 > > My solution was to extract the patch from the upstream kernel in > http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/103.el5/src/ > called > linux-2.6-fs-lockd-nlmsvc_lookup_host-called-with-f_sema-held.patch > > and reroll the latest centosplus kernel srpm with it. Servers have been > fine for 6 days running this kernel. > > As much as I hate carrying custom kernel rpms this is a showstopper for > us, and it looks like it won't make in until 5.3. > > Personally given the limited scope of the patch and apparent > unwillingness of redhat to include it in an update I'd advocate CentOS > carrying it as a custom patch. > > Here's my srpm if anyone wants it, > http://magoazul.com/tmp/kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.1.el5.centos.plus.src.rpm > the only change is the patch for this issue. Everything builds cleanly > via mock. > -- > Matthew Kent \ SA \ bravenet.com CentOS developer, Tru, compiled a patched version of regular kernel and is offering it at: http://people.centos.org/tru/kernel+bz453094/ Also, the fix will be in the upcoming kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 according to the bugzilla referred to above. Akemi