Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:05:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Ian <no-spam@people.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD NFS server & Linux clients Message-ID: <20071205160559.GB95139@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200712051749.17608.no-spam@people.net.au> References: <200712051749.17608.no-spam@people.net.au>
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In the last episode (Dec 05), Ian said: > I'm trying to get some opensuse 10.3 clients to access nfs shares on > a FreeBSD 5.5 server. It works fine most of the time, but every so > often when using big programs like openoffice & firefox, the program > will stop responding for a couple of minutes. > > After doing some googling, I enabled lockd & statd enabled on the > FBSD server - before I did that, those apps wouldn't even start > without massive delays. I still get these occasional lockup while > using the apps however. Interestingly, other apps seem to be able to > access the nfs shares even while the 'big' apps have stopped > responding. > > Just wondering if anyone has any idea how to fix or even troubleshoot > this problem? strace the hanging linux process to see if it always happens on a particular file or syscall, and run tcpdump/wireshark to see what NFS requests are being done. Also check dmesg or /var/log/messages on the client to see if it's reporting something there. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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