Re: NFS server problems (lockup) on netbsd-5

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 06:31:19PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hello,
> I tried upgrading a NFS server to today's netbsd-5 branch, without success.
> The previous kernel (netbsd-5 from 7 feb 2010) is rock solid.
> I tried a kernel from before the recent nfs-related pullups, it shows
> the same symptoms.
> 
> After a few hours of operation, the network stack is locked up.
> The server doesn't reply to ping, but the console is still alive and
> I can log in (it doesn't always make it to the shell though).
> ps from ddb shows lots of processes waiting on tstile, the lock seems to
> be the softnet_lock. One of the nfsd thread is waiting on livelock, I suspect
> it's also trying to get the softnet_lock but with a tryenter/kpause.
> 
> unfortunably I don't have a core dump (I couldn't get one).
> 
> Any idea about what could be going on ?

Just that I saw this too:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2011/04/18/msg016440.html

Cheers,

Patrick