Eric, It's not a dell, its a 1U box from Sun with x86 hardware, I believe the model on it is V60x, but no, I haven't tired turning off hyperthreading, that's one thing I am about to do. I have backed out from 5.2-current to RELENG_5_2 to go back to 5.2.1-release and I'm going to see if that helps at all. --Mike > Oh - and also - have you tried turning off hyperthreading? is this a > Dell by any chance? > > > Mike Thomas wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Alright folks, I'm in some serious need for help/advice. >> >> I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 (-current) with a kernel/buildworld ran >> yesterday (7/16/2004) on a Dual Xeon 3.06ghz with hyperthreading >> enabled. The machine also has 2gb of ram and a scsi raided array with >> an intel storage raid array controller. (iir0) >> >> The machine functions as a nis client for accounts with home >> directories nfs mounted from a Solaris 9 machine. It's primary >> function is as a mail server, and what it is nfs sharing out is the >> spool folder. (/var/mail, in this case). >> >> I know all about the dangers of sharing out a mail spool, I don't >> need, or want, a lecture about proper operating procedures in this >> case. It's for legacy purposes and will be going away in due time. >> Anyway, its with this mount that I am experiencing these nfs problems. >> >> Now, to the nitty gritty. I am seeing periodic spikes from one of the >> nfsd children from about 10% of the cpu (via top) to 100% of the cpu. >> During times of this spike, even if the spike only reaches 40-50% of >> the cpu, the machine becomes dibilitatingly slow and stops responding >> to all other commands. Even issuing an 'ls' is difficult, let alone >> doing anything productive. While using top, the nfsd state will >> alternate between biowr, biord, *Giant (yeah, it even is requesting >> Giant locks). I have recompiled every single ounce of software that >> operates on /var/mail to only use fcntl locking >> (procmail/postfix/uw-imap (there's a patch by redhat to do that)) so >> that it is nfs friendly. >> >> Here's what I've tried to do to see if it made any difference. First, >> all mounts of /var/mail from other servers were using UDP, they have >> all been switched to tcp with a rsize and wsize of 1024. I've tried >> 4096, and 8192, both which make no difference. All clients are >> specifically forced to use NFSv3. I have also tried varying between a >> soft and hard mount, also, with no difference in these spikes. >> >> I also tried switching back to the 4BSD scheduler, to see if that >> might have beeen the issue, but it would appear that didn't make any >> difference as well, though the max load average I was seeing stayed a >> bit lower with ULE as upposed to the 4BSD scheduler. >> >> So, I'm really at the end of my rope right now, I have no idea what >> to do or what could be causing this. Any advice would be great, thanks. >> >> --Mike >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > > > >Received on Fri Jul 16 2004 - 17:02:48 UTC
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