NFS problems

[Robert Watson]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marc Olzheim wrote:

>>> The mounts are soft so I would expect failures to read etc, but not
>>> deadlocks :)
>>>
>>> Has anyone else seen this? I'm not sure when it started happening but I have a
>>> feeling it was at least several weeks ago.
>>
>> Same here. IIRC it is the same in RELENG_5 with the small different that when
>> the network/nfs server is back online everything was back working. Here
>> on my CURRENT the processes are still stuck and I've to reboot the system
>> too.
>
> green@ MFC'd NFS deadlock patches 4 days ago. They might have br0ken 
> something else. :-/
>
> The good side of this is that the kern/79208 problems seem to be gone 
> now. ;-)

It would be quite helpful if people could try backing out Brian's patch 
locally and see if it fixes the recently reported problems.

Robert N M Watson