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Paul, > Chi-fan Shih said I should contact you about some strange behavior we're > seeing here with LDM. I'm not sure what information is relevant for you, so > let me know what else I can provide. > > Basically, we have LDM running on a Xen-based virtual machine running > CentOS 5.4 (64 bit). LDM writes data and logs to an NFS mounted storage > partition. The behavior we're seeing is that every time LDM starts up, the > NFS client begins complaining that it can't contact the server, and > immediately hangs. The NFS mounted file system at that point becomes > inaccessible to the client, and the client has to be rebooted to get it > back. I can start the client without LDM, and everything is fine with the > shared file system, but literally the instant LDM starts up, that file > system hangs. Let me know if there's some additional information I can > provide for you, and thanks for any suggestions you might have. Where's the product-queue? If it's on an NFS-mounted disk, then you're likely to have problems because of the memory-mapping. Execute the command "ldmadmin config" to see the pathname of the product-queue. > -Paul > > -- > Paul Goodman, 303-497-1235 > address@hidden > NCAR/CISL Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: QHY-537267 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed