From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 12 12:34:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA13470 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:34:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA13465 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id MAA12602; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 12:33:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen To: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS Continued In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can you try using v2 NFS instead of v3? I'm having problems with v3 NFS and dumped it for V2. On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote: > I've found after last night's problems, that freebsd is still accumulating > sever processes in disk-wait mode over NFS, which crashed the server last > night, yet my flagset includes soft. Here is my fstab: > > mshowell:/usr/home/coffee /usr/home/coffee nfs rw,bg,intr,soft 0 > 0 > > I don't see why there should be any processes in disk-wait with intr and > soft setup, yet I had over 128 last night. If you try and kill mountd or > unmount it, the entire system will freeze. I'm hoping the experts here > will be able to tell me what's going on - I haven't received any response > yet to my other post. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated > Server Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 > jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 > http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >