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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:38:03 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Pat Wendorf <beholder@unios.dhs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS Problems
Message-ID:  <20000925103803.X9141@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <39CF87B4.925C6C49@unios.dhs.org>; from beholder@unios.dhs.org on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:13:25PM -0400
References:  <39CF87B4.925C6C49@unios.dhs.org>

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* Pat Wendorf <beholder@unios.dhs.org> [000925 10:13] wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've been using NFS on stable (3.x, 4.x) for a while now, and when it
> works, it seems to be fast and reliable.  However, I've noticed that in
> any case where it doesn't work (nfs server goes down, cable gets
> disconnected, weird network card driver issues, etc), the client
> machines seem to get stuck in an nfs-read state limbo of some sort.  My
> poor laptop was in this state for about 3 days and the daily run's (find
> in particular) was hung (new hung "find" every day).  If I could kill
> these processes off, I probably wouldn't mind, but these processes
> simply do not die (even kill -9), without a reboot. The worst part is,
> while they are hung, I cannot unmount the NFS share (says it's being
> used). The shutdown isn't clean either because it cannot kill them at
> shutdown time. Is this normal behavior, and if so, how do I stop it from
> happening?
> 
> If this is something I've misconfigured I can provide hardware and
> config file details on request.
> 
> Thanks for any help :)

You probably want to mount your NFS with the 'intr' and 'soft'
options.

see the mount_nfs manpage.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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