NFS Locking Issue

[User Freebsd]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Scott Long writes:
>
>> For what it's worth, I recently spent a lot of time putting FreeBSD 6.1
>> to the test as both an NFS client and server in a mixed OS environment.
>
> I have a few debugging settings/suggestions that have been sent my way and I 
> plan to try them tonight, but this is just another report..
>
> FreeBSD only environment.
> Today after hours going crazy with horrible performance I brought down nfsd 
> and brought it back up.. that simple process got vmstat 'b' column down and 
> everything was back to normal.
>
> Again this will not help anyone troubleshoot, but just to mention that it 
> happens even with a FreeBSD only environment.

'k, to those out there that know what is useful, and what isn't ...

If Francisco had DDB enabled, did a CTL-ALT-ESC when the above happens, 
and does a 'panic' to crash the server and dump a core ... can anything 
useful be gleamed from that core dump?

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