Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:16:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: zfs, nfs and zil Message-ID: <113777190.2282503.1301350571721.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinZvLDkmUNHmDGQpQFRr31s=hyHuQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> > I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1 > servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes > unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server > itself is up but is not reachable from the network. When I take the > nic down and up again connection to the network is reestablished > (ip-wise). > Others have made good comments w.r.t. the zil, however if all IP activity on the server has stopped (and is fixed via "ifconfig XX down; ifconfig XX up") it sounds more like a network device driver issue to me? So, is it just NFS that wedges or all IP activity and does NFS come back to life after the "ifconfig XX up"? rickhome | help
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