Re: nfs server lockup (again)

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:45:19AM -0700, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> > > To see if it's the problem you'll need to enter ddb and see what the
> > > per-cpu soft interrupt threads are doing.
> >
> > OK, do I need to add kernel debugging, etc? I've done this in the past
> > but it's been a while.
>
> ddb should be enough. after entering ddb, ps to see what thread
> are waiting on what; you can get stack trace for each blocked threads
> with tr/a or tr/t (warning: ps show PID and LID in decimal but tr/t
> takes input in hex by default. tr/t 0t1234 will take input as decimal)

Arrgh. My stupid motherboard seems to have intermittent issues with the
USB keyboard and I can't get it into DDB. And I can't complete a build
without nfs locking up.

Is there a workaround? I'll try disabling nfsd...

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