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Date:      Sun, 01 Nov 2020 09:40:17 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 250770] AWS EC2 system freezes up possibly associated with NFS (EFS)
Message-ID:  <bug-250770-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 250770
           Summary: AWS EC2 system freezes up possibly associated with NFS
                    (EFS)
           Product: Base System
           Version: 12.2-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: raj@gusw.net

I use light-weight small cloneable FreeBSD systems built from the basic AWS=
 EC2
AMI, first with 12.0-RELEASE and just now re-built with 12.2-RELEASE versio=
n.
The idea is to have a minimal system rootfs while the bulk of the system di=
sk,
the /usr tree, is mounted from EFS (NFSv4). The AMI out of the box for 12.0
required 8 GB system disk, and now for 12.2 it's 10 GB, if I can do it in 1=
 GB
I have some significant cost savings in redundant EBS volumes while also an
easier time to distribute application software updates to my worker and ser=
ver
farm. I have described the principle here:
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/amazon-aws-ec2-super-light-configuration=
.69084/

The problem is that no matter what I do, the system locks up after about 4
hours. And it's not a kernel panic, it's not associated with any error, and=
 I
cannot see it at all. Nothing on the console screenshot, nothing in the logs
and nothing in the /var/log/messages upon force-stop & re-start.=20

Moreover, AWS EC2 console thinks the system is up in its status check. But =
any
attempt to do anything results in hangs. SSH connection hangs. telnet to po=
rt
22, no response at all (not even connection reset, etc.) just hangs. If I
happen to be logged in on the system whatever shell command I am doing will
just hang, unable to CTRL-C break out nor CTRL-Z to the background. Just ha=
ng.

So I have nothing to show you. But I can provide anyone who wants to see it
with a setup and would appreciate if someone would help out here.=20

Here is my /etc/fstab:

# Custom /etc/fstab for FreeBSD VM images
/dev/gpt/rootfs  /        ufs     rw      1       1
/dev/gpt/varfs   /var     ufs     rw      1       1
fdesc            /dev/fd  fdescfs rw      0       0
proc             /proc    procfs  rw      0       0
/usr             /.usr    nullfs  rw      0       0
fs-xxxxxx.efs.us-xxxxx-x.amazonaws.com:/ /usr nfs
rw,nfsv4,minorversion=3D1,oneopenown,rsize=3D1048576,wsize=3D1048576,hard,t=
imeo=3D600,retrans=3D2,noresvport,late,bg
0 0

It is freezing up within around 4 hours, even just idling around doing noth=
ing,
and it doesn't seem like heavy work activity would accelerate the lock-up
situation. Also doesn't depend on which instance type, specifically I have
tried t3.nano, t3.micro, c5.large, m5a.large, it happens on all of them abo=
ut
the same time.

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