From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 17:44:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BB216A4DA for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF6C43D62 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:44:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout13/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k87HiIBx029121; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k87Hi7hP009965; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:44:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <56C924ED-9AF8-4575-8A2F-9BD523AF117F@shockergroup.com> References: <56C924ED-9AF8-4575-8A2F-9BD523AF117F@shockergroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4A750B77-97BD-4433-BEC1-AA0B5377CCE6@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:44:05 -0700 To: Tom Ierna X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= X-Language-Identified: TRUE Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpc.lockd stalls X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:44:22 -0000 On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Tom Ierna wrote: > For the purposes of ease of software and hardware management, I'm > attempting to run a set of PXE-booted Client machines as web/db or > mail servers. It is perhaps reasonable to run a diskless webserver, especially if it is serving mainly dynamically generated content. Trying to run a database server or mail server without a disk strikes me as a very bad idea. I am surprised that rpc.lockd is holding up well enough to only go down about once a month; simply running the locking tests which come with sendmail used to be enough to cause rpc.lockd to crash... Best of luck, -- -Chuck