From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 13:13:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28143 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.dragondata.com (toasty@home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28137 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:13:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA29425; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:11:36 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199803042111.PAA29425@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <6267.889038755@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Mar 4, 98 08:12:35 pm" To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:11:36 -0600 (CST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >I just did this on a laptop that happens to be here on a visit. > >only special thing here is that the laptop runs soft-updates... > > > >ALT-F2 > > mount phk:/usr/src /usr/src > > cd /usr/src ; make world > >ALT-F1 > > cd /usr/src ; dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k of=foo > > > >and it hangs solid :-( > > > >I'll ponder the packet trace for a moment and see if I can > >figure something out. The laptop is stoned and I can't get > >it into DDB :-( > > I hate this kind of problem, I ran over the packet trace, > which btw was made on the NFS server. > > At end of the crash the client (the laptop) has five outstanding > write requests which hasn't been answered or retransmitted, one > of which is the very first one. > > Interestingly, the client issues a "commit" on the request it > still has outstanding about 1.4 second after it was sent, and > the commit is acked... > > Now, running with "nfsiod -n 8" I can't seem to provoke the > hang, but dd will die saying that it wrote 641433600 bytes, > (3132 x 200k), but the file on my disk is only 5128192 bytes > (25*200k) > > Man I wish I had time to look into this problem :-( > > But it seems that raising the number of nfsiods may be a > workaround and lowering it will probably make the problem > even worse. > > No panics though... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" > I actually got better stability with no nfsiods. :) But, having like 16 running seems to help. (although nothing other than the first one ever gets over 0:00 run time) I usually get a panic message, "nfsbioread", "bwrite: bufffer is not busy???", or just a lockup. For me, cp /var/crash/vmcore.0 /home/toasty/crash (with /home being mounted) will usually cause a total lockup or instant reboot. (This is over 100 base T), If I force it to go through 10 base T, it will usually behave more. :) In any case, I've made no progress figuring it out myself. :) Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message