FreeBSD 5 NFS server random freezes

[Eduardo Viruena Silva]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Guy Van Sanden wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have FreeBSD 5.0 running on my home-server.
> It servers NIS, NFS, NTP, CUPS, HTTP, MySQL, ...
> The clients are mostly Linux (Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1).
>
> Every once in a while, the NFS server just seems to freeze.
> The machine is running, I can ping and ssh in and it still serves NIS
> and
> all other functions.
> But NFS is just plain dead.  Killing mountd and restarting it doesn't
> help.
> If I do ls /net/{machinename} it says: "Resource temporary unavailable".
>
> At that point, I have two solutions, either reboot the machine, or drop
> to
> single-user mode first, and multi-user then.
>
> I can't find anything in the logs, nor can I find a link between some
> action
> and the crash.  I happens during heavy loads, it happens on light loads.
> There's only one thing in the logs I can't explain, but I can't find the
> relation:
> --
> Apr 22 13:39:51 nemesis kernel: stray irq 7
> Apr 22 13:40:16 nemesis last message repeated 4 times
> Apr 22 13:40:16 nemesis kernel: got 5 stray irq 7's: not logging anymore
> --
>
> Is anyone experiencing this?


yes, kind of...
while using NFS, if the client has not enough privileges to erase a
file or even reading it my CLIENT freezes.


> Any thoughts?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Guy
>
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