Is it just me or does this sound like he has run out of NFSD's? On Wed, 11 Jan 1995, Eric Berggren wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 22:04:19 -0800 > From: Eric Berggren <eric@ee.pdx.edu> > To: bugtraq@fc.net > Subject: mountd keeps vanishing (!) > > we have a host that is creating many problems as it's mountd stops > responding to requests (and mucking up automounters all over). the > process is still running but "rpcinfo -u hostname 100005" results > in : > > rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out > program 100005 version 0 is not available > > it's an SS2 running 4.1.3 with the following patches (among many others) : > > 100173-10 NFS Jumbo Patch > P s 100249-09 automounter jumbo patch > > this would happen various hosts on rare occasions, but this box has now > done this 6 times within the last 2 days (it's a lab support box) with > anywhere from minutes to hours between occurences. the major problem is > that other hosts go ballistic during this time, including the central > fileservers. > > > it's hard to figure out exactly what's happening as by the time it's > noticed, the machine itself is inaccessible to logins and many other > commands. we may try enabling full accounting (to whatever effect). > > anyone seen this or have any insight ? unfortunately, the automounter > is a critical part of our setup. > > thanx! > > -eric > > ============================================================================= > - Portland State University - > Eric Berggren Janaka Jayawardena > Administrator, CS/EE Director of Computer Services, CS/EE > eric@ee.pdx.edu janaka@ee.pdx.edu > ============================================================================= //// Eric Kimminau eric@dosgod.mi.org Dos God at Large. Linux v1.1.62 c-OO '' Take thee this thing covered with that stuff and give it unto that \ guy, that he may do things with it. ** "Romis glorius", sed Caesar