Subject: Re: Nfs clients get frozen when NFS server crashes...
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/04/2000 17:49:36
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:27:29AM +1100, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:05:28 +0000
>     From:        Sam <sam@epita.fr>
>     Message-ID:  <20001003170528.A5555@epita.fr>
> 
>   | 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.
> 
> I see this as well.
> 
>   | Here is how they are mounted:
> 
> This is my standard mount ...
> 
> munkora-mmlab:/local/tech /local/tech nfs rw,nosuid,-b,-P,-c,-i,-s
> 
> which (aside from nodev which certainly isn't relevant, but I should add)
> translates into much the same as you are using.

Hum, strange. I have some NetBSD clients as well, ocasionally the servers
gets down (not for long periods, note) and I've *never* seen this.
I use amd, with
-opts:=resvport,rw,hard,bg,intr
or occasionally
-opts:=resvport,rw,hard,bg,intr,rsize=16384,wsize=16384

maybe amd is what helped me here ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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