From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 18:29:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98AA16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:29:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (mail-in-02.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9958C43D31 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-current@nada.refused.cc) Received: from dialup.user (dsl-213-023-013-214.arcor-ip.net [213.23.13.214]) by mail-in-02.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D9C6BC261 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:29:23 +0100 (CET) Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 100) id 9347CD14; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:29:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 03:29:23 +0100 From: Namik Dala To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040121022923.GB17110@snickers.dahoam> Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org References: <20040120144747.GB13132@snickers.dahoam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: NFS: Processes marked "in disk" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 02:29:27 -0000 On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:29:33PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > Questions: > > (1) Are you using rpc.lockd on the client? Server? Are both clinet and > server running 5.2-R? Are you using NFS over UDP, over TCP; NFSv2 or > NFSv3? The default; it's v3 i think. The problem is (hopefully) solved, the parent of rpc.lockd core dumped after reboot of the NFS server. Only the the rpc.lockd process with the user id `daemon' was running. I killed it und restarted it, and everything is fine now. > (2) Could you show the output of "ps -axl" for hung processes? Might also > be interesting to have you recompile the kernel with "options DDB" > and "options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER". When a process hangs on the client, > hit ctrl-alt-escape (or serial break on serial console), then type in > 'trace pid', substituting the pid of the process in question. If it dies again, I will do this. > There are some known issues involving NFS, most of them involving > rpc.lockd. There are some other reports of NFS problems, but they've been > hard to track down, as they appear to be very sensitive to the local > configuration. Thank you. -Namik-