[ale] Wow! Check out these load averages!

[James P. Kinney III]

Glad it was something simple. Sounds like there needs to be some
heartbeat work to make sure that the NFS server gets restarted quickly.

On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 09:26, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> Turns out someone had shutdown a machine that this box attaches to via
> NFS, so the box was hanging waiting for the NFS connection.  It wouldn't
> reboot for the same reason.
> 
> Thanks, man.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 22:50, John Wells wrote:
> > Exactly.  And once you're attached, "backtrace" will usually provide some
> > telling info.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > James P. Kinney III said:
> > > gdb <PID> will attach it to the running (or in your case, hung) process
> > >
> > > help will give info on classes of things you can do. help <topic> gives
> > > more detail.
> > >
> > > Since ftpd is acting up, bounce the networking setup. Also try running a
> > > tcp sniffer to see if you are being attacked. tcpdump is a good idea. If
> > > you see ports being half-opened by the same ip, block them at the
> > > firewall.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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