Re: FreeBSD NFS server Linux clients

2007-12-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 05), Ian said:
 I'm trying to get some opensuse 10.3 clients to access nfs shares on
 a FreeBSD 5.5 server. It works fine most of the time, but every so
 often when using big programs like openoffice  firefox, the program
 will stop responding for a couple of minutes.

 After doing some googling, I enabled lockd  statd enabled on the
 FBSD server - before I did that, those apps wouldn't even start
 without massive delays. I still get these occasional lockup while
 using the apps however.  Interestingly, other apps seem to be able to
 access the nfs shares even while the 'big' apps have stopped
 responding.
 
 Just wondering if anyone has any idea how to fix or even troubleshoot
 this problem?

strace the hanging linux process to see if it always happens on a
particular file or syscall, and run tcpdump/wireshark to see what NFS
requests are being done.  Also check dmesg or /var/log/messages on the
client to see if it's reporting something there.

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Dan Nelson
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FreeBSD NFS server Linux clients

2007-12-04 Thread Ian
I'm trying to get some opensuse 10.3 clients to access nfs shares on a FreeBSD 
5.5 server. It works fine most of the time, but every so often when using big 
programs like openoffice  firefox, the program will stop responding for a 
couple of minutes.
After doing some googling, I enabled lockd  statd enabled on the FBSD 
server - before I did that, those apps wouldn't even start without massive 
delays. I still get these occasional lockup while using the apps however. 
Interestingly, other apps seem to be able to access the nfs shares even while 
the 'big' apps have stopped responding.

Just wondering if anyone has any idea how to fix or even troubleshoot this 
problem?

My rc.conf on the server looks like:
portmap_enable=YES
rpcbind_enable=YES
rpc_lockd_enable=yes
rpc_statd_enable=yes
nfs_server_enable=YES
nfs_client_enable=yes
mountd_flags=-r

Cheers,
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Ian
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