Re: netsnmpd 5.2.1 & stale NFS mount.

Thomas Anders <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dean wrote:
> We had a situation recently where a hard NFS mount suddenly became
> unavailable (it was taken away without unmounting, I know, yuck).
> 
> After which found that the snmpd process was consuming 3.2% (which on
> this particular host is 1 full CPU in a 32-CPU 69k - Solaris 9). Further
> investigation revealed that the process is spending 100% of its time in
> system
[...]
> I'm just wondering if this is expected behaviour of snmpd, in a
> situation where an NFS mount becomes unavailable.

Unfortunately there's not much we can do about this. A hard mount means 
exactly this: system calls to access this filesystem *block* if it's not 
available instead of returning an error. This is what you're seeing here.


+Thomas

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Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)


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