From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 5 16:06:00 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DBF16A419 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:06:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41AFA13C45B for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:06:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id lB5G5xBU054859; Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:05:59 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:05:59 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Ian Message-ID: <20071205160559.GB95139@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200712051749.17608.no-spam@people.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200712051749.17608.no-spam@people.net.au> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD NFS server & Linux clients X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:06:00 -0000 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