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Date:      Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:51:59 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: waiting on sbwait
Message-ID:  <20040625105159.GA41051@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20040625061757.9D05A43D5A@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040624232902.26400C-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20040625061757.9D05A43D5A@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:17:01AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> it's definetly NFS related, i/you can cause this to happen at will,
> ie: ls /net/host where host is down. the /net is a amd trigger which will
> try and mount via nfs all of host's exports.

In that case, the "sbwait" is the kernel waiting for the unresponsive
NFS server (or maybe amd) to reply. There's not much you can do
about that other than change your amd or nfs configuration to give
up if the server is unresponsive.

	David.



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