> Accompanying the dropped connection is a Solaris
> system freeze -- the keyboard and mouse are
> unresponsive.  At first I thought this was a power
> management issue; some process was putting the
> machine into idle and disrupting the server.  So I
> tried all of the following:

How did you recover from the freeze ? reboot ? Was there a kernel panic ?

> Solaris: SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_127128-11
> 64-bit / AMD64 processor / Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3-E
> mohterboard / 1 GB RAM
> 
> Mac: Mac OS X  v. 10.4.11 PowerPC 
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated; I've been trying to
> figure this out for a couple of days and have
> invested a lot in the idea of opensolaris/zfs.

It isn't OpenSolaris. It's Solaris 10. Unless you're using OpenSolaris, I doubt 
you'll get much help from here. Though there are a lot of docs on debugging 
these kind of problems on Solaris/OpenSolaris so you may be able to do that. 
DTrace has NFS providers which you can use to check what's wrong with nfs 
server. 

Typically we go about finding these kind of problems by running traditional 
tools like vmstat , iostat and intrstat and see what happens till the freeze.

- mritun

PS: I remember that an old OpenSolaris build had a zfs bug (?) where ARC was 
too aggressive on memory/caching and basically starves other processes of 
memory. I think it also went in one of the Solaris 10 updates (U2??) It has 
long been fixed. So may be the fix is to just upgrade to latest release.
 
 
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