Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Tom Ierna wrote: For the purposes of ease of software and hardware management, I'm attempting to run a set of PXE-booted Client machines as web/db or mail servers. It is perhaps reasonable to run a diskless webserver, especially if it is serving mainly

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:34:08PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Hello, list. For the purposes of ease of software and hardware management, I'm attempting to run a set of PXE-booted Client machines as web/db or mail servers. The NFS/DHCP/YP servers are running on a 5.4-STABLE Server. I

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Ierna
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:34:08PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Sporadically, there appear to be stalls on some locks with rpc.lockd. rpc.lockd is unreliable in all versions of FreeBSD (although it may be worse in 5.x), see the mailing list

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:34:08PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Sporadically, there appear to be stalls on some locks with rpc.lockd. rpc.lockd is unreliable in all versions of

rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Ierna
Hello, list. For the purposes of ease of software and hardware management, I'm attempting to run a set of PXE-booted Client machines as web/db or mail servers. The NFS/DHCP/YP servers are running on a 5.4-STABLE Server. I mostly followed the PXE guide when building these systems. All

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Ierna
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Trying to run a database server or mail server without a disk strikes me as a very bad idea. This is unfortunate - the client machines I have chosen have no front-panel disk sleds. Hardware administration will be a bear if they each have to

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 7, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Tom Ierna wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Trying to run a database server or mail server without a disk strikes me as a very bad idea. This is unfortunate - the client machines I have chosen have no front-panel disk sleds. Hardware

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 03:19:51PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Is there a way to note -L via fstab? Since these machines are PXE booted, unmounting and re-mounting with -L will be

Re: rpc.lockd stalls

2006-09-07 Thread Tom Ierna
On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Is there a way to note -L via fstab? Since these machines are PXE booted, unmounting and re-mounting with -L will be problematic, and I'd like them to inherit this property at reboot.