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- From: rainer@ruble.fml.tuwien.ac.at (Rainer Staringer)
- Subject: Re: NFS problems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.080715.3014@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University of Vienna
- References: <1ej08nINNdrn@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:07:15 GMT
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- In article <1ej08nINNdrn@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- writes:
- > This sounds like the problem we were having here for awhile. First, do a "ps
- > -aux" on your servers when your clients get the NFS server not responding
- > message. See which process is using up the most cpu. My hunch is that
- > lookupd might be the culprit. It this is indeed the case, then your problem
- > most likely involves netgroups, if you are using them. Please post more
- > information about your problem.
-
- Yes, I am using a netgroup for restricting NFS access to our local bunch of
- machines (4 NeXTs and a few PCs). Also the NeXTs have root NFS access.
-
- > When the server panicked, there should have been a reason for the panic in
- the
- > little window. It is very helpful to post the panic messages so we have a
- > better idea of what was going on.
-
- The problem with the panic messages is that they scroll by so quickly :-(
- But I remember that it reported something like 'ns_abstimeout table overflow'
- as the cause of the panic (this was the 3.0 host). I think it is also
- interesting that it said 'NFS server ruble ok' (the 2.1 host), immediately
- after the 'Killing all processes' message - looks to me like some sort of
- deadlock which can only be broken by killing the right process.
-
- Rainer
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