From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 11:52:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870A416A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:52:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao11.cox.net (lakermmtao11.cox.net [68.230.240.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70B943D55 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:52:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.30.50]) by lakermmtao11.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041221115159.NTRV1657.lakermmtao11.cox.net@dolphin.local.net> for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:51:59 -0500 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBLBq2Gj082223 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:52:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:51:57 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041221055157.5bf808ff@dolphin.local.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13 (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: NFS flakiness since @ last Friday X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:52:04 -0000 I'm seeing some real instability in NFS since approximately last Friday. Intermittently, I'm seeing messages such as the following: On the client machine: Dec 20 23:18:22 dolphin kernel: impossible packet length (1820291) from nfs server gateway:/mm Dec 21 00:51:47 dolphin kernel: impossible packet length (1746474142) from nfs server gateway:/mm and Dec 21 01:14:41 dolphin kernel: nfs send error 35 for server gateway:/mm Dec 21 01:16:33 dolphin kernel: nfs send error 35 for server gateway:/mm Dec 21 01:16:38 dolphin kernel: nfs send error 35 for server gateway:/mm Dec 21 01:16:40 dolphin kernel: nfs server gateway:/mm: not responding Dec 21 01:16:43 dolphin kernel: nfs server gateway:/mm: is alive again On the server machine: Dec 20 21:52:48 gateway kernel: nfsd send error 32 Dec 20 21:57:50 gateway kernel: nfsd send error 32 Dec 20 22:00:45 gateway kernel: nfsd send error 32 Dec 20 22:23:29 gateway kernel: nfsd send error 32 Dec 20 23:18:23 gateway kernel: nfsd send error 32 Then, ultimately, all NFS communication just breaks down altogether until a reboot. I'm also seeing "sillyrenames" left behind occasionally in nfs-mounted directories. There were a couple of nfs-related commits last Thursday, which I believe are most likely the culprit, although I don't know which ones exactly. -- Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas"