possible NFS lockups

[Sam Fourman Jr.]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:29 AM, krad <kraduk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have a production mail system with an nfs backend. Every now and again we
> see the nfs die on a particular head end. However it doesn't die across all
> the nodes. This suggests to me there isnt an issue with the filer itself and
> the stats from the filer concur with that.
>
> The symptoms are lines like this appearing in dmesg
>
> nfs server 10.44.17.138:/vol/vol1/mail: not responding
> nfs server 10.44.17.138:/vol/vol1/mail: is alive again
>
> trussing df it seems to hang on getfsstat, this is presumably when it tries
> the nfs mounts
>

I also have this problem, where nfs locks up on a FreeBSD 9 server
and a FreeBSD RELENG_8 client


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Sam Fourman Jr.
Fourman Networks
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