Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:51:49 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> Cc: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: zfs, nfs and zil Message-ID: <20110329155149.167768mu74in1ios@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin6t=RUo8UHRg47ETZWajc2CWTJZg@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTinZvLDkmUNHmDGQpQFRr31s=hyHuQ@mail.gmail.com> <113777190.2282503.1301350571721.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca> <BANLkTin6t=RUo8UHRg47ETZWajc2CWTJZg@mail.gmail.com>
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Quoting Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> (from Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:57:40 +0200): >>> I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1 >>> servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes >>> unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server >>> itself is up but is not reachable from the network. When I take the >>> nic down and up again connection to the network is reestablished >>> (ip-wise). >>> >> So, is it just NFS that wedges or all IP activity and does NFS come >> back to life after the "ifconfig XX up"? > > All ip-activitiy, dns, ssh etc. on the interface (ip-address) that is > mounted. So whenever I test I log in to the server using the other > ip-address and whenever it stops responding to ping or my screen > session stops I reload the interfaces and the traffic resumes. Are the two NICs the same brand/driver/board? If not, could you try to switch the networks on them and test if the problem persists? It would also be nice if you could tell which driver/chip the NIC with the problem is. Bye, Alexander. -- Q: What do monsters eat? A: Things. Q: What do monsters drink? A: Coke. (Because Things go better with Coke.) http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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