From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 12 08:48:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA29724 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:48:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netrail.net (netrail.net [205.215.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29684 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jonz@localhost) by netrail.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA11983; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:45:46 GMT Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:45:46 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" To: "M.R.Murphy" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS Continued In-Reply-To: <199708121544.IAA04785@meerkat.mole.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I stated in my last letter that I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.2. The other stuff appears to be set up right. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan A. Zdziarski NetRail Incorporated Server Engineering Manager 230 Peachtree St. Suite 500 jonz@netrail.net Atlanta, GA 30303 http://www.netrail.net (888) - NETRAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, M.R.Murphy wrote: :> From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 08:34:32 1997 :> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 11:00:14 +0000 (GMT) :> From: "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" :> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG :> Subject: NFS Continued :> :> I've found after last night's problems, that freebsd is still accumulating :> sever processes in disk-wait mode over NFS, which crashed the server last :> night, yet my flagset includes soft. Here is my fstab: :> :> mshowell:/usr/home/coffee /usr/home/coffee nfs rw,bg,intr,soft 0 :> 0 :> :> I don't see why there should be any processes in disk-wait with intr and :> soft setup, yet I had over 128 last night. If you try and kill mountd or :> unmount it, the entire system will freeze. I'm hoping the experts here :> will be able to tell me what's going on - I haven't received any response :> yet to my other post. :> : :You want to let folks know what version of FreeBSD you're running :on the machine that has the fstab you've shown above, and what what :OS and version are running on mshowell? Also how mshowell is defined :to the FreeBSD system, e.g., through /etc/hosts, through YP, through :DNS... and why you thing mshowell is correctly servicing requests? : :You'll get better response if you include more information. : :-- :Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874 :Better is the enemy of Good :