Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 16:11:05 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mohan Srinivasan <mohan_srinivasan@yahoo.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Processes stuck in nfsreq Message-ID: <20050204001105.GA3760@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050203182917.40592.qmail@web80603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050203180756.GA2103@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050203182917.40592.qmail@web80603.mail.yahoo.com>
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--Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:29:16AM -0800, Mohan Srinivasan wrote: > Hi, >=20 > In the info you have below, the NFS request was not sent (R_SENT > is not set). We didn't send out the request because possibly nm_cwnd=20 > didn't allow us to send the request. If nfs_request() could not send=20 > the request, then typically, the request would be retransmitted from=20 > nfs_timer().=20 >=20 > If nm_cwnd is full, then there must be a lot of outstanding requests=20 > that haven't been replied to yet (on this mount), which is the fundamental > issue. FYI, this is truly hung and not just backlogged - it hasn't proceeded any further since last night. > Can you force a core dump and send me a pointer to it ? Unfortunately not, because twed dumping is still broken. The only way I was able to obtain this information is because kan has patches that fix kgdb enough to use it on the running kernel. > Also, after you force a core, can you also try a quick workaround - someo= ne > else also reported NFS client hangs and said that things were fine > after they set mpsafenet to 0. It would be good to see if there's a > correlation there. I can try that. Kris --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCAr2ZWry0BWjoQKURAqV3AJ4wOuupBoGVf75mVJeSMDHb1tqHCACg7Tlq xxU355GFq1yiU7zH/SI3HZM= =Yazc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--
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