Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 15:57:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Alan Byrne <alan@niceguy.isocor.ie> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: High NFS activity causing crash Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951108152824.1534C-100000@niceguy.isocor.ie>
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Hi,
I am having severe system crashes on a FreeBSD 2.0.5-950622-SNAP system
(I know, I should upgrade to a later release ! ).
I think they are related to NFS activity when the system is heavily loaded.
I first discovered the problem due to some corruption in some RCS
controlled souce files (loads of null chars and/or truncated files).
I have been able to narrow it down to NFS writes from the client (SCO) to
the server (FreeBSD). I can duplicate the problem by copying files from
an NFS mounted disk and back again (it may take a few hours depending on
the load).
I am about to try and fine tune my NFS client/server setup to slow things
down a bit, just in case it's due to duplicate nfs requests not being
handled correctly by the server, but that shouldn't cause the system to
crash...
Is this a known problem with that verion of FreeBSD, will upgrading to
latest SNAP solve it ??
System is a P-90, 32MB mem, SMC PCI network card, Seagate Barracuda drives.
I enabled kernel crash dumps and installed a debug kernel, so here is the
backtrace from kgdb......
(kgdb) where
#0 boot (arghowto=256) at ../../i386/i386/machdep.c:870
#1 0xf0113683 in panic (fmt=0xf01755c5 "blkfree: freeing free block")
at ../../kern/subr_prf.c:128
#2 0xf017579b in ffs_blkfree (ip=0xf0a68500, bno=8480, size=8192)
at ../../ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c:1220
#3 0xf0177717 in ffs_truncate (ap=0xefbffd00) at ../../ufs/ffs/ffs_inode.c:334
#4 0xf017e192 in ufs_setattr (ap=0xefbffd4c) at ./vnode_if.h:827
#5 0xf014ccdd in nfsrv_setattr (nfsd=0xf0a3c400, mrep=0xf0be7380,
md=0xf0be7380, dpos=0xf08b4000 "", cred=0xf0a3c42c, nam=0xf0ca2e00,
mrq=0xefbffe5c) at ./vnode_if.h:188
#6 0xf015d673 in nfssvc_nfsd (nsd=0xefbffea4, argp=0x183cc "8\026",
p=0xf0a53700) at ../../nfs/nfs_syscalls.c:545
#7 0xf015cf7a in nfssvc (p=0xf0a53700, uap=0xefbfff94, retval=0xefbfff8c)
at ../../nfs/nfs_syscalls.c:276
#8 0xf0199557 in syscall (frame={tf_es = 39, tf_ds = 39, tf_edi = 6,
tf_esi = 2, tf_ebp = -272638352, tf_isp = -272629788,
tf_ebx = -272638300, tf_edx = 0, tf_ecx = -10, tf_eax = 155,
tf_trapno = 646, tf_err = 646, tf_eip = 13141, tf_cs = 31,
tf_eflags = 646, tf_esp = -272638516, tf_ss = 39})
at ../../i386/i386/trap.c:828
#9 0xf018f20b in Xsyscall ()
Cannot access memory at address 0xefbfde70.
Yours hopefully
Alan Byrne
Network Administrator
ISOCOR Ireland
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