From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 3 17: 8:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59A9B37B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 17:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 75776 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2001 00:17:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2001 00:17:23 -0000 Message-ID: <3B425DC6.5415FC1@iowna.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 20:05:27 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Losher Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.5-STABLE, NFS, and Solaris NFS clients. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Losher wrote: > > Hi, > > I am encountering a problem with a FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE NFS server where we > have multiple NFS clients (Sun, IRIX, Free/NetBSD/BSDi, Linux, HPUX) > Most of the NFS clients work fine, but all the Solaris (and sometimes > even the IRIX) NFS clients, under heavy NFS load, locks up the NFS server > hard, and it requires a power cycle to come back up. > > Does anyone have any pointers to look for to diagnose this problem, > /var/log/messages logs nothing, there is no corefile, and I have read the > System Handbook on NFS, but to no avail. > > Any ideas? Did you read this section of the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nfs.html Section "17.4.4 Problems Integrating with other Systems" sounds like it may be your problem. Try out the fixes suggested there and see if they help. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message