amd64/119346: System freezes when intense I/O operation is performed on network mounted smb filesystem

[Pyun YongHyeon]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/119346; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>
To: Victor <victor at nett.ca>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/119346: System freezes when intense I/O operation is performed on network mounted smb filesystem
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:48:52 +0900

 On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:25:15AM +0000, Victor wrote:
  > 
  > >Number:         119346
  > >Category:       amd64
  > >Synopsis:       System freezes when intense I/O operation is performed on network mounted smb filesystem
  > >Confidential:   no
  > >Severity:       serious
  > >Priority:       medium
  > >Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
  > >State:          open
  > >Quarter:        
  > >Keywords:       
  > >Date-Required:
  > >Class:          sw-bug
  > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
  > >Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 05 00:30:02 UTC 2008
  > >Closed-Date:
  > >Last-Modified:
  > >Originator:     Victor
  > >Release:        6.3 PRERELEASE
  > >Organization:
  > Nett Technologies
  > >Environment:
  > FreeBSD freebsd 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Dec 27 12:49:12 EST 2007     victor at freebsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VICTOR_DEC07  amd64
  > >Description:
  > I had reported this problem before as http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=111337 with my old hardware,
  > but was unable to submit follow-up so the ticket expired. Since then, the hardware was completely replaced (except for adapte scsi controller and two hard disks) and the system exhibits similar behaviour i.e. freezes without throwing crashdump.
  > 
 
 It seems that nve(4) was used to serve smbfs. Since nfe(4) is not
 avilable yet on RELENG_6, try nfe(4) patch for RELENG_6 at the
 following URL.
 http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
 
 -- 
 Regards,
 Pyun YongHyeon