[ale] Death Spiral.

[Eric Z. Ayers]

we had an nfs server go down earlier this week. The machine right next 
to it is a place where a lot of peopel log in and do work over the NFS 
mount.  the load avg. was 99.0 until the server came back up.


So rebooting your server is what you should do.

-Eric.

Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> Ok, got an odd one in production.
> 
> A box has automounted NFS home directories (pre-existing me, trying to get
> rid of this, now we have ammo).  A user apparantly was running some 
> commands such as a grep in one case.  The /home entry went away.  The 
> Process is still out there and appears to be causing some serious issues.
> We have a couple boxes with load averages of 25.XX when they should be down
> around 2-3 or less.
> 
> Killing the grep process doesn't seem to be doing squat.  Remounting root
> complains that /home is busy.  "mount -o remount" doesn't do anything
> either.
> 
> Thoughts other than reboot which is the next shot?
> 
> :wq!
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