Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:43:03 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: waiting on sbwait Message-ID: <20040625114314.1371C43D41@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Message from David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> <20040625105159.GA41051@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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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. I understand, but the problem is that all access via amd are now stalled, till the one process failes/times-out. I guess it's because the single thread amd. danny
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