[4814] in Athena Bugs
rpc.mountd abort()s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Mon Apr 23 14:53:41 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 90 14:53:26 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
It appears that our NFS servers get enough load that rpc.mountd is incapable
of sending a response to a "showmount -a" request. When this happens, mountd
calls "abort()" (which dumps core and exits). This is the wrong response: it
should send a response if possible, and continue processing if not. I'm not
sure if the abort() calls in the "mnt" function in rpc.mountd.c can be safely
removed, or more changes are needed.
Sample core dump (for VAX) is achates:/u1/dumps/core.mountd.
