net-snmp process hang on hardy

[Marc Gariépy]

We have about 35 servers that use novell NFS and NCP mountpoint, and snmp process get in
"Uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)" almost every day. I have tried to disable disk space report on the
snmp config but it still get in the same state.

[Imre Gergely (cemc)]

Can you be more specific on this? Do you have snmpd running on all 35 servers, and it hangs on all of them ? When it hangs, do you have to kill the process? Does it use up CPU?

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

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[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Greg Pangrazio (pangrazi)]

I have the same problem. I will attempt to provide you the information to get this resolved.

Host info
2.6.24-24-server #1 SMP
snmpd -v

NET-SNMP version: 5.4.1
Web: http://www.net-snmp.org/
Email: <email address hidden>

The host is a VM running on ESX3.5

I am running snmpwalk from another host. The host gets through part of the "walk" and then dies. after that point SNMP is not responsive on the system.
snmpwalk -v2c -c COMMUNITY HOST .1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.1 works repeatedly but as soon as the SNMP walk is done against "HOST" the interfaces mib will not respond.
SNMPv2-MIB::snmpProxyDrops.0 = Counter32: 0
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemUptime.0 = Timeticks: (1527047278) 176 days, 17:47:52.78
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemDate.0 = STRING: 2010-6-7,14:26:25.0,-5:0
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemInitialLoadDevice.0 = INTEGER: 1536
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemInitialLoadParameters.0 = STRING: "root=UUID=77c8dc26-88c7-4e6d-bc9b-2c21f28907ba ro quiet splash
"
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemNumUsers.0 = Gauge32: 1
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemProcesses.0 = Gauge32: 402
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemMaxProcesses.0 = INTEGER: 0
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrMemorySize.0 = INTEGER: 2075596 KBytes
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.1 = INTEGER: 1
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.3 = INTEGER: 3
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.6 = INTEGER: 6
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.7 = INTEGER: 7
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.8 = INTEGER: 8
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.10 = INTEGER: 10
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.31 = INTEGER: 31
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageIndex.32 = INTEGER: 32

appear to be the last lines every time I run the snmpwalk. I tried about 10 times to verify on my one system. Let me know what other information I can provide to speed resolution of this bug.

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