Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:22:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com> Cc: "'FreeBSD stable'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD dies sort of after some time Message-ID: <199804171422.HAA00540@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Apr 1998 15:18:29 %2B0200." <01BD6A14.144FB4A0.berend@pobox.com>
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> Hello All, > > I've the following problem. After running happily for a few days/weeks one > of my FreeBSD dies sort of. If I issue a 'df' command or try to unmount > something these commands never return and I'm not able to kill them. > > Using ps I see: > > /usr/home/berend$ ps ax | grep "df" > 7490 p0 D+ 0:00.02 df > 7491 p2 D+ 0:00.01 df > > Other things work (like ls), but mail isn't delivered properly anymore. > When I issue the reboot command the machine says 'syncing discs' but that's > all. I've to turn off the power to reboot it. Sounds like you have NFS-mounted filesystems where the server has gone away. > It runs all my network/internet processes like named, ppp, NIS, is NFS > server/client, gateway, whatever. Try mounting your NFS filesystems "soft,bg,intr". This won't help if they've gone away, but it will mean you can hit ^C to get out of df. (You may have to hit it several times...) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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