strange RPC error messages ... summary ....

2007-12-25 7:15:00

Hi everyone,

After so many weeks that I've inquired about the strange RPC

error messages problem on our file server 3/280 running 4.0.3, I've

finally found out what had happened. Thanks to all who had responded

to my question.

The problem is due to a bug in SunOS4.1's rpc.lockd. On this

subnet with the file server, I have my workstatoin plug into the

same network. All the workstations are running 4.0.3 except mine

running 4.1. And the message came from the rpc.lockd running

in my workstation.

When rpc.lockd starts, it seems to be okay, "ps aux" says :

USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND

root 109 0.0 0.0 84 0 ? IW Oct 2 0:00 rpc.lockd

However, after running for an extended and arbitrary of time, it

may go into a state with SZ=16000 and RSS=6000 or some arbitrary

big size. I have talked to some Sun engineer and found that it is

a known documented bug with patch # 100037-01 for 4.0, 4.0.1 and 4.0.3

and patch # 100075-01 for 4.1.

I haven't have time to install the patch just yet, and since it didn't

happen all the time. When it happens, I just kill rpc.statd and rpc.lockd

and restart them again and then it will be fine for a while.

Thanks again for all the responses.

Ciao.

Tim Chan

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Tim Chan, System Engineer, Teknekron Communications Systems

(415)-649-3645 2121, Allston Way, Berkeley, CA94704

uucp : ucbcad!tcs!tim or uunet!tcs!tim

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