Subject: Re: Nfs clients get frozen when NFS server crashes...
To: Sam <sam@epita.fr>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/03/2000 18:23:13
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:05:28PM +0000, Sam wrote:
> 
> When this hapenns all the netbsd clients that try to access the exported file systems 
> which are not accessible, get stuck, and sometimes get completely frozen.

When this happens, could you, in addition to the other suggestions,
run a 'ps xl' (as root) on a client that hangs, and report on its
output? The "WCHAN" field is of importance, it shows what the processes
are waiting for in the kernel.

- Frank