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
Robert Watson writes:
can you trigger it using work on just one client against a server, without
client-client interactions? This makes tracking and reproduction a lot
easier
Personally I am experiencing two problems.
1- NFS clients freeze/hang if the server goes away.
We have clients with
Robert Watson writes:
It's not impossible. It would be interesting to see if ps axl reports that
rpc.lockd is in the kqread state, which would suggest it was blocked in the
resolver.
Just tried ps axl | grep rpc in the machine giving us the most grief..
Only got one line back:
root 367
Robert Watson writes:
It's not impossible. It would be interesting to see if ps axl reports that
rpc.lockd is in the kqread state
Found my post in another thread.
0 354 1 0 96 0 1412 1032 select Ss??0:07.06
/usr/sbin/rpcbind
It was not in kqread state.. and that was
User Freebsd writes:
I believe, in Francisco's case, they are willing to pay someone to fix the
NFS issues they are having, which, i'd assume, means easy access to the
problematic server(s) to do proper testing in a real life scenario ...
Correct. As long as the person is someone trusted in
User Freebsd writes:
What are others using for ethernet?
Of our two machines having the problem 1 has BGE and the other one has EM
(Intel). Doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
Except for the network cards, these two machines are identical. Same
motherboard, same RAID controller,
User Freebsd writes:
Since there are several of us experiencing what looks to be the same sort
of deadlock issue, I beseech you not to give up
I will try to setup the environment, but to be honest no more 6.X for us
until 6.2 or 6.3.. We have lost clients already.
Is this a problem that
Kostik Belousov writes:
I think that then 6.2 and 6.3 is not for you either. Problems
cannot be fixed until enough information is given.
I am trying.. but so far only other users who are having the same problem
are commenting on this and other simmilar threads.
We just need some guidance..
I believe this may be related to the NFS issues mentioned recent, but
hopefully I may have captured enough info to help others troubleshoot..
I got the header of some ps commands.. and when was about to do full listing
of the same ps commands to files.. the machine hung up.
The machine is 6.1
John Hay writes:
I only started to see the lockd problems when upgrading the server side
to FreeBSD 6.x and later. I had various FreeBSD clients, between 4.x
and 7-current and the lockd problem only showed up when upgrading the
server from 5.x to 6.x.
It confirms the same we are
Doug Ambrisko writes:
Can you try:
http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/bge_ipmi_3.patch
and see if that helps. I need one minor tweak to it before I can
commit it.
We have a brand new machine getting readied.. Passed along the patch URL to
the tech building the machine.
Kostik Belousov writes:
Approved by:pjd (mentor)
Revision ChangesPath
1.156.2.3 +16 -0 src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_serv.c
1.136.2.3 +4 -0 src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_srvsubs.c
The above files are what I have.
Yes from a 6.1 stable around 6-25-06
What this means ? That you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wasn't able to find anyone seeing a similar problem as what I describe.
I'm using FreeBSD 6.1, MySQL 5.0.21 built from ports and a NetApp share
provided over NFS.
Recently we have been having problems with Mysql in 6.X (1 machine 6.0
stable and another 6.1
Mark Linimon writes:
It's not easily possible for a FreeBSD developer to put these kinds of
stresses on a machine, so we rely on our users to help us with these
problems.
And this is why I have been trying to someone to PAY him/her to help us.
I have been trying to find if anyone that works
Kostik Belousov writes:
This seems to be a different issue. BTW, I have already heard complaints
about deadlocks caused by combination of nfsd and snapshots.
I think you can add: nfsd + background fsck too.
Probably, I will look into this, but cannot give you estimations when.
Thank!!
Michael Collette writes:
This last week I had been working on a test network to test out 6.1
prior to upgrading our production boxes from 5.4.
I wish I had done that.. :-(
That's when I ran
across the rpc.lockd issues that have been discussed earlier.
I am not familiar with that, but I
Sergey Shyman writes:
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0x not found by probes, defaulting to disk0.
Is that a RAID you are booting from?
Booting with old kernel works fine. Also BIOS see IDE drive.
Single IDE drive?
Michel Talon writes:
Strange, since i upgraded to FreeBSD-6.1 and the NFS server to Fedora Core 5,
my machine, NFS client is happy, and lockd works.
What volume are we talking about?
My own problems and other reports I see are all under heavy load.
Atanas writes:
I have some newer machines with 2 Broadcom chips on-board. I plan to
give them a try at some point in the future, but I'm not sure how stable
the bge driver
For us they have been a problem. Primarily because it causes all kinds of
freezing/crashes when having an IPMI board.
User Freebsd writes:
the one thing that sticks out to me about this report is that they
upgraded teh NFS server to FC5
I wonder if the FreeBSD 6.X client would freeze with a non FreeBSD NFS
server. Would be interesting to have that info for comparison.
Albert Shih writes:
I've nfs server running 6-Stable (5 April 2006) with some trouble but ...
well approx stable.
But today he crash again (after ~1.5 mounth).
Now I'm like have some advise :
1/ I can upgrade to 6.1-Release, but I've see many problem with
nfsd heavy load.
I have a series of machines 6.0 stable (various dates), 6.1 stable (various
dates) that freeze if the NFS sever they are connected to becomes
unresponsive or crashes. Was able to confirm this behavior for both i386 and
AMD64.
A 5.3 machine connected to the same nfs server was able to umount
Rink Springer writes:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:09:14AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
So far 6.X has been for the most part stable as NFS sever for us.. but one
of our servers has been hanging crashing and NFSD was showing as status
GIANT
You'll want to upgrade to the latest 6-STABLE
Rink Springer writes:
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:(Branch: RELENG_6)
sys/nfsservernfs_serv.c nfs_srvsubs.c
Log:
MFC of the temporary fix for nfsd leaking GIANT.
src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_serv.c rev. 1.165
src/sys/nfsserver/nfs_srvsubs.c rev. 1.141
Both
Have a machine that once we upgraded to 6 Stable the machine would freeze at
the bootup menu.
We tried disabling ACPI and AIPC and it did not help. Usually the freezing occurs
after 2 or 3 seconds out of the 10 second countdown.
To make it more interesting... if we press enter right after
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Don Lewis wrote:
BTW, even with an UPS monitored by sysutils/nut, I've had a non-trival
number of ungraceful shutdowns caused by power problems (power cord
between UPS and computer falls out, sudden battery death, etc.). For
this reason, all of my machines (other than my
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:
If you're using maildir, that is one of the situations which works pretty
well with RAID-5, although RAID-10 is also (always? :-) a good choice.
How about for database? In particular postgresql.
How bad would RAID 5 be for it?
I still have some,
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
a) old-style .sh scripts are not supported, Michael needs to rewrite them for
rcNG
b) old-style .sh scripts are supported, Michael has some other system problem
Have you tried moving out most of the scripts and leaving a subset.. if
those start
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Scott Long wrote:
Is the goal to have a new major branch every 2 years?
Yes. This will allow us to pace our major development projects much
better than we have in the past.
Someone mentioned 5.X will be supported till 2007 (or at least that's the
plan). So will, in
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Scott Long wrote:
Again, please don't take the abrupt switch to 6.0 to mean that 5.x is
flawed or that 6.x will also have a short lifespan. The real purpose
of the switch is nothing but positive; it'll keep us focused and prevent
us from overreaching and overextending
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Julio Merino wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 11:32:36PM -, David Reid wrote:
Just cvsup'd to stable and I've almost run out of room on /! How big should
I create it when I reinstall as I now don't have enough to do another build.
I allocate 70Mb for / on a 20gb
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote:
The simplified version of the maxusers auto-sizing has been MFCd but
people need to be aware that to use it you need to update your kernel
source AND recompile /usr/src/usr.sbin/config.
So will the following sequence be ok?
make buildworld
make
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Andrew Reilly wrote:
The other disks are masters on each of the two ATA controllers:
ad0: 6149MB QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A [13328/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
ad1: 6149MB QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A [13328/15/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
After producing a non-working CD with
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Jaye Mathisen wrote:
Trying to newfs the following fs is giving me fits:
newsfeed-inn# disklabel -r twed0
# /dev/twed0c:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 65418
sectors/unit: 1050940800
8 partitions:
#
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
Since there has been a sudden spate of changes post-BETA (not a huge
number, but more than the usual amount in -stable since the freeze)
I decided it would be a good idea to roll a BETA2 snapshot, and
it's now on:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Torben Baecker wrote:
make buildworld
make kernel KERNCONF=JUPITER
So this new procedure replaces the old?
Can one put the KERNCONF variable on /etc/rc.conf and just do "make
kernel"
Where is this explained in /usr/src/UPDATIN?
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 18:17:02 +1100, Zero Sum wrote:
If you are going to try a second mirror within a short timeframe, it has to
be further up the food chain.
If the server you select is not available, then an automatic switch to the
next one up the CVS mirror food chain might work.
It may
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:41:45 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
I know this is currently in "current", but won't this eventually
make it to stable?
Maybe. I would have thought that's unlikely though. However, even if
it is, there'll be a HEADS UP posted to this mailing list, so you'll be
aware that
I recently started to track 4.X Stable. How often does one need
to run mergemaster, or even better how does one even know that
it needs to be run?
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Who do I need to talk to to take over the /etc/UPDATING file for
stable
I got a computer just to do daily MakeWorlds.
What info would you all find usefull on this file?
For the most part it should be fairly uneventfull.
Would it be usefull to have info about some of the auxiliary
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:50:41 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
Francisco Reyes wrote:
Does the /etc/sendmail.cf gets replaced by stable?
Not sure what you mean by "replaced by stable." It does not get
replaced in a make/build world.
Apparently that is not the case.
According t
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:55:38 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Francisco Reyes" writes:
: I don't see how one can tell if a change will require a user to
: do any kind of change for his/her Stable system to compile with
: the latest sources. Have I missed someth
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