Infrequently ... that is, perhaps once every few weeks, my mail server grinds to a halt. The load average climbs into the hundreds, processes start getting killed off, and all because something seems to want to launch as many instances of portmap as it possibly can. And for the life o' me, I can't figure out what.
The box is currently running 4.7-STABLE, but it's been doing this off and on since 4.4-RELEASE. The box is not an NFS server, but it becomes a client from time to time, and portmap and nfsiod are launched at startup. There are no NFS devices listed in /etc/fstab, there is no /etc/exports and no other NFS-related daemons are running. If I catch things in time (and have a shell already open), I can usually recover with `killall portmap`. If I'm not around (which is usually the case), the box will either grind to a halt requiring a console reset, or merely spontaneously reboot. I can see no other strange behaviour (or network traffic) going on with this box -- aside from this problem, it behaves perfectly. Does any of this sound familiar? Where do I look for the problem? Tnx. -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
