From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 13 00:35:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8CE5106568F for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:35:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alanbryan1234@yahoo.com) Received: from web50506.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web50506.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4296F8FC12 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 49135 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Feb 2010 00:08:55 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1266019735; bh=Lv0BkxUWzPVmmMAq8FpqGQj6KOZ4moA7RZ/3l6/1Xv4=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=IeiQ0yMITvlTuMrtBRAGKnN6ANm7+wQUFwlfDHLChA0JpUaYhZiQigB+mPqktEllufVjP6XEnrxu4pUOTa8OXzg+7ThY5w+AO5O2LQK6ZALS78/1fyPTu0iJFVjlK+OLDF7qACMxkj6tFLzbSBV5Y2ffbsHWAnyO/QYm1mpeTXE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=h63O+dFjwx/0SNE6WF6HNMEEHXDCQIkRu2TD4KHdNQyoWoTk+7GZsV+pnhle5YkSYhk+dSvur0XGFq94+cF2jHO5koWSa9N2nKAb4G3nYnwtk+6YXmz6pkTIuDpYvhPOJceaT1YNvq5OzndaMOVdlF2J0ooT5PozMKb/bzq8gQM=; Message-ID: <247310.48932.qm@web50506.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: IzzZhU8VM1ll1poyE018XtnsQVKrenAwqsG.kLObgunHImWm4Q2g93uXL2JQjMS1LKreqeazjWpyO55pfyhaqc7cZDR8Bx_9MI4svDaPuOjX5VCW2S6KloFISxT1CRtVXdePqzmka0pFA9oTVPyDCbPJGLjuE3ZkpSXMZJBImxDSIV6uBkyiRr5.iAo_ENJhfnURuqnLtr2TKNwlQtqiH6X_tGwDFIB_.L6cO572rZkEIwmfI19bkLrTXndJC7lsk_VhfeJAj.P0t8GJooB.OLFblSba5MQfYHIRvcJG8_f7YURIPa9lz_WgWNN7UDYAdnf9pauc9w0x.17sKt0- Received: from [99.24.6.121] by web50506.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:08:55 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/9.1.10 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:08:55 -0800 (PST) From: alan bryan To: Dmitry Marakasov , Rick Macklem In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: NFS write corruption on 8.0-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:35:37 -0000 =0A=0A--- On Fri, 2/12/10, Rick Macklem wrote:=0A=0A= > From: Rick Macklem =0A> Subject: Re: NFS write corr= uption on 8.0-RELEASE=0A> To: "Dmitry Marakasov" =0A> Cc:= freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "John Baldwin" =0A> Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 11:12 AM=0A> =0A> =0A>= On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:=0A> =0A> >=0A> > I'm planning= a massive testing for this weekend,=0A> including removing=0A> > soft moun= t option and trying linux client/server.=0A> >=0A> > Btw, I forgot to menti= on that I'm experiencing other=0A> NFS problems from=0A> > time to time, in= cluding "death" of a mount (that is,=0A> all processes that=0A> > try to ac= cess it freeze; this cures itself in some=0A> time with a message=0A> > "se= rver is alive again"). Also I've seen another=0A> strange thing - not=0A> >= only the mount dies but the network is flooded with=0A> NFS traffic.=0A> >= Last time I've seen it quite a while ago, so I don't=0A> remember the=0A> = > circumstances and direction of the traffic.=0A> >=0A> There are some patc= hes at:=0A> =A0=A0=A0 http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem=0A> that may be = relevant if you are using vanilla FreeBSD-8.0.=0A> (They're all=0A> now in = stable/8, but are post-release of 8.0.)=0A> =0A> rick=0A> =0A> ____________= ___________________________________=0A> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org=0A> mail= ing list=0A> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable=0A> T= o unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A= > =0A=0A=0AThis is interesting:=0A=0A"I've seen another strange thing - not= only the mount dies but the network is flooded with NFS traffic."=0A=0ARic= k - this sounds very similar to the issues I was seeing (and reported in th= e thread on freebsd-stable "Zombie NFS writing from FreeBSD clients to Free= BSD 8.0 server with ZFS". =0A=0AFor the record - I updated to the latest 8= -Stable and that still didn't cure my issues. I was originally on hard mou= nts on udp, tried soft and TCP too, nothing solved it.=0A=0ASo, a few days = ago I switched to using samba and mount_smbfs instead and am now running 3 = days without a crash or any network traffic/load issues. (same machine, sam= e ZFS disks, etc...) Luckily it wasn't too painful to make the change. Wh= en I have more time I'd like to retry NFS.=0A=0A--Alan=0A=0A=0A=0A