On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, alan bryan wrote:

--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Rick Macklem <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Rick Macklem <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Zombie NFS writing from FreeBSD clients to FreeBSD 8.0 server with 
ZFS
To: "alan bryan" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 12:19 PM


On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, alan bryan wrote:

> I have a AMD64 FreeBSD 8.0 server with ZFS filesystem
being shared via NFS.? These are being accessed by the
clients.? The clients are a mix of FreeBSD 6.2 32bit
and FreeBSD 7.0 64bit.? I have seen similar behavior
from both versions of FreeBSD as clients.
>
[stuff related to lotsa writes being done snipped]
>
> Any ideas on what to try, where to look for more
insight, etc...??
>
- Are they the same write being retried over and over?


yes - it appears so


- Is the server replying to them with an error?

yes


The above might give some insight into what's happening,

Didn't help much. The server is replying with NFS3ERR_IO (EIO) for
some reason. Unfortunately EIO is the catch all for just about
everything. (There is only one case in the NFS server code that
generates EIO and that would be caused by a bogus data mbuf list.)
As such, I suspect the EIO is coming from ZFS for some reason, but
can't be sure.

Btw, a binary capture using tcpdump can be read into wireshark, which
is much better at decoding NFS etc than tcpdump.

rick
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