NFS: freeze during copy

[rvenne at dental-on-line.fr]

Vivek Khera wrote:

>
> On Sep 26, 2006, at 10:31 AM, rvenne at dental-on-line.fr wrote:
>
>> I was able to mount nfs mounting point and to copie 16K of 7G data.  
>> and, it goes to freezing. I can't kill neither cp process neither  
>> mount unmount nfs (umount command goes freezing too). tcpdump tells  
>> me that server doesn't give any response in spite of client's udp  
>> queries.
>>
>
> sounds similar to my issue with mksnap_ffs locking up in "D" state,  
> except that mksnap also locks the whole file system while it works,  
> so if it freezes, so does the full FS.
>
> I'm running 6.2-PRE from 9/23.
>
yeah, that's true, ps ax shows the "cp" process staing in D state. by 
the way, the server is unavailable now, execpting ping. the whole system 
is out.

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