From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 27 18:42:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84E0916A4CE; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:42:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F2143D55; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:42:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from hammer.stack.nl (hammer.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5010::153]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467C61F110; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:42:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hammer.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id 2C6056149; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:42:03 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:42:03 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Message-ID: <20050427184203.GD6256@stack.nl> References: <20050426151751.GB68038@stack.nl> <20050426155043.GC5789@green.homeunix.org> <20050426160609.GA68511@stack.nl> <20050426162549.GD5789@green.homeunix.org> <20050426164346.GA68763@stack.nl> <20050426193602.GE5789@green.homeunix.org> <20050427081746.GA66441@stack.nl> <20050427160857.GF5789@green.homeunix.org> <20050427171523.GB5984@stack.nl> <20050427183435.GA39270@green.homeunix.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/2994txjAzEdQwm5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050427183435.GA39270@green.homeunix.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD hammer.stack.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS client/buffer cache deadlock X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:42:04 -0000 --/2994txjAzEdQwm5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 02:34:35PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > Alright, thanks for helping with this :-) Do you think you can find > a way to tell if in 4.x you're actually using NFSv3/transactions? I > would really like to know why 4.x isn't deadlocking, and that's the > most plausible explanation I can think of right now. >=20 > The behavior could also be totally different due to nfsiod, lack thereof, > or its settings. Are you running nfsiod on 4.x, and if so, how many? > On 5.x+ the default maximum of nfsiods is 20. The install I ran the speedtest on is: FreeBSD baroque.ilse.net 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #23: Wed Aug 4 15= :18:52 CEST 2004 root@tango.ilse.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BAROQUE i386 and runs 6 nfsiods. How can I tell whether it uses transactions ? The NFS server is mounted with: mount_nfs -c -P -a 0 -r 8192 -w 8192 -i -o rw,noatime,nointr host:/path /nf= s/host/path Marc --/2994txjAzEdQwm5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCb9z7ezjnobFOgrERAmQOAJoDfa7AsatAKDhq0cwDrLbVT7DEPQCfXYns Sw74MaAy17ZweZ+q6DBOTkg= =Z8Mj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/2994txjAzEdQwm5--