From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 15:15:42 2005 Return-Path: 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 C016716A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:15:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from top.daemonsecurity.com (FW-182-254.go.retevision.es [62.174.254.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A659C43D1F for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:15:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [192.168.0.32] (charm.daemonsecurity.com [192.168.0.32]) by top.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59356FD049; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:15:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41DD5618.6070801@locolomo.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:15:36 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041114 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, da, it, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: M References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP and NFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:15:42 -0000 M wrote: > I have a system that is being used as a high performance NFS server > > FreeBSD nfs2 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #1: Tue Jan 4 > 19:14:40 EST 2005 root@nfs2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NFS i386 > > Two CPUs (tried hyperthreading and not), 4 GB of memory > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2400.10-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 > > Features=0xbfebfbff ,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HT > T,TM,PBE> > Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs > real memory = 4160225280 (3967 MB) > avail memory = 4073271296 (3884 MB) > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 6 > > The NFS exported filesystem is on a Q-Logic FC card > > isp0: port 0x4000-0x40ff mem > 0xf8300000-0xf8300fff irq 28 at device 3.0 on pci3 > isp0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > The disk is formated UFS2 and is big, but not *that* big yet > > /dev/da1s1d 471860682 206516934 227594894 48% /usr/local/export > > Every 12 hours or so the system crashes with a hard lock and no error > messages in /var/log/messages or on the screen. I've moved all the > disks to a duplicate system. If it continues to lock hard what's the > possibility the issue is SMP? See this message from yesterday (submitted to announce): ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:01.nfs.asc In short, update your system. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2