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Date:      Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:51:09 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        rvenne@dental-on-line.fr
Cc:        freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFS: freeze during copy
Message-ID:  <20060927165109.GA52006@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <451A4045.7020000@dental-on-line.fr>
References:  <B6D948D84090A54ABCD88AA391DAAC8C049CF550@tiasbel00ex00.be.eu.tiauto.com> <451939DA.3060709@dental-on-line.fr> <D930A855-AEAC-4EC3-AEE5-313858E2DAB2@khera.org> <451A2E87.6000301@dental-on-line.fr> <451A4045.7020000@dental-on-line.fr>

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:11:33AM +0200, rvenne@dental-on-line.fr wrote:
> rvenne@dental-on-line.fr wrote:
> 
> >Vivek Khera wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:31 AM, rvenne@dental-on-line.fr wrote:
> >>
> >>>I was able to mount nfs mounting point and to copie 16K of 7G data.  
> >>>and, it goes to freezing. I can't kill neither cp process neither  
> >>>mount unmount nfs (umount command goes freezing too). tcpdump tells  
> >>>me that server doesn't give any response in spite of client's udp  
> >>>queries.
> >>>
> >>
> >>sounds similar to my issue with mksnap_ffs locking up in "D" state,  
> >>except that mksnap also locks the whole file system while it works,  
> >>so if it freezes, so does the full FS.
> >>
> >>I'm running 6.2-PRE from 9/23.
> >>
> >yeah, that's true, ps ax shows the "cp" process staing in D state. by 
> >the way, the server is unavailable now, execpting ping. the whole 
> >system is out.
> >
> the server is rebooted.
> 
> someone recommand me to use smbfs instead of nfs ( 5.4@smp )...

Or if you actually care about the problem then provide some useful
debugging information that will allow someone to work on fixing it :-)

See a previous reply to Vivek where I explained what is needed to help
debug this kind of problem.

Kris

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