From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 13:09:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC7E16A409 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:09:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (mail.dignus.com [209.42.196.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C878E13C459 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:09:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.1.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l34D7OM2017162; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:07:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) id l34D9da90685; Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:09:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rivers) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:09:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <200704041309.l34D9da90685@lakes.dignus.com> To: chris#@1command.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070404054219.ejuvhtdq8wc04ogk@webmail.1command.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on office.dignus.com Cc: Subject: Re: NFS == lock && reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:09:18 -0000 Hi Chris, Well - the NFS server is 4.5-RELEASE - a rather old box. Everything worked fine when the shop was all 4.x boxes, but as soon as we put in a 5.x or 6.x box - the NFS clients on those (5.x/6.x) boxes locked up hard if rpc.lockd was running on the 4.5-RELEASE server. On 4.x, rpc.lockd doesn't start automatically - since, as I understand it, rpc.lockd had "issues" in that timeframe. But, one of the developers here turned it on hoping to get real locking for /var/mail. So - I thought my problem might simply be the old rpc.lockd implementation in 4.x, and I didn't worry about it (since 4.x is out-of-service anyway.) However, this sounded _so_ familiar - I thought I would pop-up and mumble something like a "me too." rpc.statd isn't running on the 4.5 NFS server. - Dave Rivers - > > Quoting Thomas David Rivers : > > > I have found that if I kill rpc.lockd on the NFS server, > > most of the NFS issues I have (including a similar lock-up on > > 6.1-RELEASE) go away. > > Ah hah! I wondered about this. Funny you mention it. The interesting > thing was that my most problem boxen is this one here, and it is the > /only/ one with: > > rpc_lockd_enable="YES" > rpc_statd_enable="YES" > > in rc.conf I simply chose these in an effort to keep everything current > and accurate. You don't happen to have any experiences keeping rpc.statd > running? > > Thank you for taking the time to reply. > > --Chris