From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 29 23:48:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3302F37B71C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:48:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2U7mIi13166; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:48:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 23:48:18 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Rami AlZaid Cc: David Malone , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfsd Benchmark Message-ID: <20010329234818.V9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <5.1.0.12.2.20010327202300.04c60e10@wheresmymailserver.com> <5.1.0.12.2.20010327202300.04c60e10@wheresmymailserver.com> <20010328102955.A92875@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <5.1.0.12.2.20010330021234.030aa6e0@mail.alzaid.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.12.2.20010330021234.030aa6e0@mail.alzaid.com>; from lists@alzaid.com on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:16:33AM -0500 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Rami AlZaid [010329 23:17] wrote: > I've compiled the debugger into the kernel and read the section about that > in the handbook but now after the crash there isn't any dump restored! I > tried using the ctl-alt-esc but that doesn't help... when the machined is > killed I'm not about to do anything with it at all other than resetting the > machine. Did you add a line for dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf? > > At 04:29 AM 3/28/2001, you wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:29:35PM -0500, Rami AlZaid wrote: > > > I'm currently running 4.3-BETA and I'm trying to benchmark nfsd > > > with iozone. When using a Linux machine (2.2.18) as the nfs client and a > > > FreeBSD machine as the nfs server, the whole FreeBSD machine hangs when > > > trying to benchmark and the only thing I could do is turn it off and turn > > > it back on again. The nfsd works fine in normal usage but it just hangs > > > when benchmarking. Does anyone know why would nfsd hangs the FreeBSD > > > machine when trying to benchmark it? is this a bug? > > > >Definitely a bug. Linux used to have lousy clustering, which would > >result in the NFS server being hit harder during writes, but I > >think this has been fixed. It shouldn't kill the server either > >way. Have you tried compiling the debugger into the kernel and > >using ctl-alt-esc when it is wedged? > > Rami AlZaid * ICQ # 1071118 > WebPages: www.alzaid.com * www.wooyeah.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message