cckba@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Kent Adams) (05/07/91)
I have recently upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1 using the 4.1 upgrade kit.
I believe we have an NFS problem, but cannot determine the cause.
Support have not been overly helpful yet.
We have a DECstation 5000 which exports user directories via NFS
to two DS3100's and a DS2100. One of the 3100's serves mail,
news and local software. Both start 8 nfsd and 5 biod daemons.
The 5000 has 32MB, the 3100 24MB both with bufcache 15.
The problem manifests itself when a particular user cannot
access his directory from the 3100 and gets a process in a
D state. The user, unaware of the problem may login again,
do the same command and so on until he has several processes
in a D state. This may affect a couple of users but does not
affect all. Neither the user nor root can kill these
processes. The only clearance is achieved by a reboot.
Has anyone had similar problems? Is this a 4.1 problem or my
configuration. It didn't happen under 4.0.
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