Andrey Petrov wrote:

>It would be interesting to see on what wchans processes are waiting (ps -alx).
>I see similar behaviour on ibmnws with pcn nic. In my case client usually
>sleeps in getput and nfsd in nfsmblk, that means that nfs_writerpc waits
>for packet being sent, and client waits for nfsd to complete. I also see pcn reset
>by watchdog before hung and it seems pcn loses mbuf pointer without freeing it
>during reset.
>
>	Andrey
>  
>

Well, the two 'ls' and one 'df' that i've tried since the hang began (on 
the client) are in vnlock:

 6004   138 17990   0  -2  0    72    656 vnlock   D    p2   0:00.00 ls 
-F /pkg
 6004 24466 17990   0  -2  0    68    600 vnlock   D    p2   0:00.00 ls 
-F /pkg
 6004  7288 20140   0  -2  0    32    476 vnlock   D    p3   0:00.00 df -h

...but the find from the pkgsrc bulk build is in getblk:

    0 16347 17264   0  10 20   152    748 wait     IN+  p0   0:00.05 
/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/find /pkg_comp/packages -type l -name 
ap-php-4.3.10.tgz -print | /usr/bin/xargs /bin/rm -f
    0 24707 16347  26  -5 20   180    768 getblk   IN+  p0   0:00.27 
/usr/bin/find /pkg_comp/packages -type l -name ap-php-4.3.10.tgz -print
    0 25113 16347  31   2 20   336    512 piperd   IN+  p0   0:00.01 
/usr/bin/xargs /bin/rm -f


...anything more?

+j