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Subject: Re: NFS lockups with VMware esxi client
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Rick Macklem wrote:
>> I have NFS sharing a ZFS pool that VMware esxi stores files on. When
>> put under stress (an OS installation, but not Linux compilation), the
>> NFS server locks, spiking to 100% CPU usage. Not even kill -KILL can
>> stop the process, so rebooting is required.
>>     
> I believe it is patched in head/current. A compatible patch is at:
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/freebsd8.1-patches/replay.patch
>
> rick
>   
It worked!  I grabbed the latest from STABLE, checked, saw that patch 
was already in, compiled, and it's working.  Thank you.