Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 16:39:04 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Peter Losher <Peter.Losher@nominum.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.5-STABLE, NFS, and Solaris NFS clients. Message-ID: <3B4621E8.2D505A04@iowna.com> References: <20010706114453.A2614-100000@svalbard.nominum.com>
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[I'm replying to -stable mainly because, well, I don't have much more in the way of advice ...] Peter Losher wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Section "17.4.4 Problems Integrating with other Systems" sounds like > > it may be your problem. Try out the fixes suggested there and see > > if they help. > > Tried those, while it helped to some degree on some of the Solaris boxes > (we have seven) it still crashes on some of them. > > What I did is copied a 91MB tar file from a Solaris NFS client (w/ w=1024 > in /etc/auto_master) It would copy 2/3's of the way through, then the NFS > server would print this on the screen: > > inode > syncing disks... 48 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 46 > giving up > Uptime: 7d5h8m1s > > <then freeze hard, requiring a power cycle - No core file, no entry in > messages> > > On another system, it copied over fine, but the NFS client wouldn't give > the prompt back until I Ctrl-C'ed it. > > FWIW, the NFS Server (running 3.5-STABLE) has 4 nfsd proccess running. > Would increasing the number of nfsd processes help? Do you have a large number of clients? If the answer is yes, increasing the number of nfsd processes could help. I have a hard time believing that not having enough could panic or freeze up a system, but it's worth a try. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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