Here’s a new symptom of the problem:
The last time our system crashed, I was able to peek at the NFS Settings tab of the Server Admin window. What we usually see there is something like:
Use 8 server threads
The figure 8 is a user-changeable text box, the rest is static text in the interface window. But this time, what I got was this:
Use 99 server daemons
I don’t know if this is any indication of what was really happening under the hood but never before have I seen an interface change its display text like that — threads and daemons are two very different things are they not? This is the weirdest thing. I took a screen shot but unfortunately can’t display it here.
Anyone seen this before?