Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:11:14 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Morten A. Middelthon" <morten@freenix.no> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: NFS locking question Message-ID: <20060815101114.GA51674@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060815095950.GD34840@freenix.no> References: <20060228101453.GB47953@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20060228102150.GA56625@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060815095950.GD34840@freenix.no>
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--pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:59:50AM +0200, Morten A. Middelthon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:21:50AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:14:53AM +0100, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > > > Hi, all! > > >=20 > > > In our local office network we have a rather old FreeBSD 5.2.1 > > > server acting as an NFS server for several other systems, mostly > > > running 6.0. > > >=20 > > > >From time to time we experience processes on the NFS clients > > > hanging in statd "D" with wchan "lockd" when accessing files > > > over NFS. > >=20 > > Try the attached patch on the 6.0 machines: > >=20 > > Index: usr.sbin/rpc.lockd/lock_proc.c > <snip> >=20 > Hi, >=20 > I have been plagued with this NFS lockd issue for quite some time now. It= has > kept me from installing FreeBSD 6.x on our workstations at work. I just t= ried > applying your patch to my own 6.1-RELEASE-p3 workstation, and so far it h= as > been working nicely. Has anyone else had the same experience? If so, mayb= e it > should go into production? I was unable to obtain confirmation from anyone else (including the submitter who previously claimed it was necessary, and my own testing) that the patch actually solved a problem. Since it involves reverting useful functionality, someone would need to obtain further debugging from your system (tcpdump traces before/after, etc) to determine what it's actually solving. Kris --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE4Z3CWry0BWjoQKURAkhUAJ9xxVuuP4ptHmSdQu977GlL3zzByQCeLBmE eRZ9uPxpWzB/oebgGnEOzts= =oef8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pf9I7BMVVzbSWLtt--
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