[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS NFS fileserver hanging under sustained high write loads

[Chris Siebenmann]

> > On May 4, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
> > I swear I've seen someone try to address this before.  Maybe it's from =
> my Nexenta days.  I will be querying the illumos developer's list (as I =
> suspect this affects the other distros as well if they haven't fixed it =
> in their local illumos children).
> 
> Folks who aren't Chris, see here:
> 
> http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/2015/05/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/4:58/20150505065805:98F5E7D6-F315-11E4-87B6-F3BD9F3176C1/
> 
> The hard part will be testing this.  I'm not sure I have the HW in-house
> to do it.  I may need illumos community help.

 Since we have a test environment where we can reproduce this and a high
interest in seeing it fixed, we can test new kernel packages and so on.

(If given specific howto instructions we can probably build test kernels
from source, but we've never tried to do any OmniOS source building
before so it may take us some time to get up to speed on that. It'd be
much easier to take a prebuilt test kernel, drop it in, and go.)

	- cks