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Date:      Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:35:32 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Ilya Obshadko <ilya@zhurnal.ru>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS client lockup?
Message-ID:  <20000225113532.A49913@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <6843.000224@zhurnal.ru>; from ilya@zhurnal.ru on Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:14:30PM %2B0300
References:  <6843.000224@zhurnal.ru>

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 08:14:30PM +0300, Ilya Obshadko wrote:

>   I've experienced NFS client lockup that hangs entire box. There
>   is no any diagnostic messages, network interface is active (I can
>   ping the system), but system is not responding at all, I'm unable to
>   reboot it with Ctrl-Alt-Del. This occurs only under high NFS-mounted
>   filesystem load with concurrent read/write requests. At the moment
>   of lockup, top shows processes that use NFS in "nfsrcv" state.

Your best hope of finding what the problem, is to compile in the
kernel debugger and leave yourself on the text console. When the
machine locks up break to the debugger and get a trace, it can be
worth doing this a few times by continuing the kernel and getting
another trace so you can try to figure out where in the code the
kernel is stuck.

We've managed to diagnose problems like this fairly quickly as long
as the problem is fairly easy to reproduce.

	David.


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