From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 12 11: 2:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68B837B403 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) id f9CI1uP34914; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:01:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:01:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200110121801.f9CI1uP34914@earth.backplane.com> To: nuzrin yaapar Cc: Ryan Dooley , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uh... server crashes every day :-/ any thoughts? References: <3BC5A3FB.22F51BB@missouri.edu> <200110120123.JAA00336@venus.cyber.mmu.edu.my> 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 : :On Thursday 11 October 2001 9:51 pm, Ryan Dooley wrote: :> Hey All, :> :> I've got this 4.4-RELEASE server running a Dell 6450 that seems to be :> having issues (I've crashed once a day for the past week at the worst :> possible time (business hours). :> :> Here's the deal... :> :> The system is a central NFS server serving up NFS, SAMBA, and printing :> to a large number of clients. It has two interfaces. One goes to a :> dedicated 100MB network for 6 linux machines that act as web and ftp :> servers as well as some general access machines (they mount a file :> system from this server via NFS (version 3, udp) : :Hi all, : :I also experienced similar problems. I think it's related to NFS somehow. My :NFS server will reboot itself without even displaying the panic messages :whenever around 15 or more I think NFS clients accessing it simultaneously. : :The machine serves around 40 NFS clients. I cannot give the configuration :now, because I'm somewhere else and do not have access to the machine. But :what I remember is that nfsd is configured to start with 20 instance, the :mbufs is 40000, and NIC is fxp0. : :Thanks. Both of you need to upgrade to the latest -stable. I don't know if the recent fixes I committed will solve your problems, but there's a good chance that they will have a positive effect. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message