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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2005 23:15:02 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mohan Srinivasan <mohan_srinivasan@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Processes stuck in nfsreq
Message-ID:  <20050204071502.GA17866@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050203182917.40592.qmail@web80603.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050203180756.GA2103@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050203182917.40592.qmail@web80603.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:29:16AM -0800, Mohan Srinivasan wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> In the info you have below, the NFS request was not sent (R_SENT
> is not set). We didn't send out the request because possibly nm_cwnd=20
> didn't allow us to send the request. If nfs_request() could not send=20
> the request, then typically, the request would be retransmitted from=20
> nfs_timer().=20
>=20
> If nm_cwnd is full, then there must be a lot of outstanding requests=20
> that haven't been replied to yet (on this mount), which is the fundamental
> issue.
>=20
> Can you force a core dump and send me a pointer to it ?
>=20
> Also, after you force a core, can you also try a quick workaround - someo=
ne
> else also reported NFS client hangs and said that things were fine
> after they set mpsafenet to 0. It would be good to see if there's a
> correlation there.

FYI, it looks like turning off mpsafenet indeed masks the bug.

Kris

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