Odd network issues on ZFS based NFS server

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Thu Jun 10 11:48:33 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:06:09PM +0200, Anders Nordby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:17:10PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > I wonder if your system is running out of free RAM.  How would you
> > like to monitor "inactive", "cache" and "free" from either "systat -v"
> > or "vmstat -s" whilst the problem is occurring.
> > 
> > Does something like
> >   perl -e '$x = "x" x 10000000;'
> > temporarily correct the problem?
> 
> While the problem is happening:
> 
> root at unixfile:~# vmstat -s

Can you also provide "vmstat -i" output, both when the issue is
happening and after the machine has been rebooted (but been up for 5-10
minutes)?  Thanks.

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