Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 20:49:51 -0500 From: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/1972: NFS problem under load Message-ID: <199611070149.UAA05326@spoon.beta.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199611070200.SAA16466@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1972 >Category: bin >Synopsis: NFS stops under load >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 6 18:00:05 PST 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Brian J. McGovern >Organization: B.E.T.A. >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386 >Environment: Standard load of FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP >Description: When having a single client mount more NFS directories from a server than the server has nfsd processes running, the nfs servers stop responding to the client session until the processes are killed, or the system is restarted. Increasing the number of NFS servers to greater than the number of mounts seems to "fix" the problem. >How-To-Repeat: Run a small number (4) nfs servers, and attach > 4 mounts from a single client >Fix: Load up more nfsd processes (tho this is a bad fix for large servers. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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