Re: How to monitor Linux NFS client load?

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 21:03 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> Recently we have the case of very high latencies on NFS reads as 
> reported by application (SAP R/3). NFS server was NetApp FAS; according 
> to NetApp statistic, average volume read latencies were in order 10ms, 
> while SAP stats gave 30-50ms. Systems were interconnected by dedicated 
> 1Gb/s Cisco switches (3750G) with ca. 30% max load on interfaces.
> 
> On advice of my colleague we changed sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries from 
> default 16 to 128 which seemed to make situation much better - without 
> changing load pattern of filer in any visible way.
> 
> Now, I can understand, why we observed much higher latency on system and 
> why changing (what effectively is) queue depth helped. But I am totally 
> frustrated that there does not appear to be *any* possibility to detect 
> this situation on Linux side and to get a real numbers of real NFS IO 
> latencies or number of requests waiting to be executed (and I do not 
> even dream about per-mount point stats).
> 
> I am grateful for any hints how can we monitor Linux NFS client and get 
> real-life numbers of what happens inside. Thank you!

See the nfs-iostat utility in the nfs-utils package:

http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/nfs-utils.git;a=blob;f=tools/nfs-iostat/nfs-iostat.py;h=9626d42609b9485c7fda0c9ef69d698f9fa929fd;hb=HEAD

Trond