Subject: Problems with nfsd on NetBSD 1.2.1/sparc
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG, netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/23/1997 14:18:04
Hello fellow NetBSD users. I have a production 1.2.1 NetBSD/Sparc
machine I set up for nfs serving to an old Microvax we have here running
Ultrix 4.2. The NetBSD machine is an IPC with three disks striped on a
ccd, which is then exported to nfs space.
The symptom is that when the Ultrix machine engages in heavy i/o, or
at least as heavy as it gets from an old VAX, the nfsds lock up in disk
wait in the kernel. The wchan for the processes is:
"143748"
the priority is -20.
The only way to unwedge these processes is to reboot. At this point,
things start working again until the next time it happens.
The only other clue I have, which may or may not be related, is that
during the nightly dump scripts, we see the message:
DUMP: Warning: Undefined file type 070000
Does anyone have any suggestions? This could be a problem.
-thanks
-Brian