NFS Locking Issue

[Danny Braniss]

> John Hay writes:
> 
> > I only started to see the lockd problems when upgrading the server side
> > to FreeBSD 6.x and later. I had various FreeBSD clients, between 4.x
> > and 7-current and the lockd problem only showed up when upgrading the
> > server from 5.x to 6.x.
> 
> It confirms the same we are experiencing.. constant freezing/locking issues.
> I guess no more 6.X for us.. for the foreseable future..

just to add some more 'ingredients' to the problems:
	1- we are suffering from the lockd syndrome
	2- am-utils sometimes failes - specially /net (type:=host)
	  [there seems to be a race condition]

both problems are new since 6.1
and now, on a 'mostly idle' machine, after failing to compile openoffice-2.0
the lockd is 'spinning' with no real work, at least so it seems:

last pid: 69935;  load averages:  0.16,  0.10,  0.08    up 1+16:37:25  09:37:09
44 processes:  1 running, 43 sleeping
CPU states:  2.6% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system,  0.4% interrupt, 96.6% idle
Mem: 129M Active, 2796M Inact, 157M Wired, 106M Cache, 214M Buf, 132M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
  513 root          1  96    0 48628K 45304K select 1  67:39  5.13% rpc.lockd
  498 root          1   4    0  2420K   868K -      1  23:38  0.83% nfsd
  419 root          1  96    0  5408K  2088K select 1  98:13  0.00% amd-6.1.5

danny