From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262916AbTIFQ3x (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:29:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262918AbTIFQ3x (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:29:53 -0400 Received: from web40405.mail.yahoo.com ([66.218.78.102]:56409 "HELO web40405.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262916AbTIFQ3v (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:29:51 -0400 Message-ID: <20030906162949.27200.qmail@web40405.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 09:29:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Joshua Weage Subject: Re: NFS client problems in 2.4.18 to 2.4.20 To: Trond Myklebust Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have read through them and did some tuning a few months ago. The only thing that seems relevant to this problem is UDP buffer overflows, but I'm using the 2.4.20 kernel. I'm using 8192 byte read and write sizes and have increased the number of nfsd's and socket buffer size on the server. Everything was working fine until about 4 weeks ago when the mounts on the clients started locking up. The server is dropping packets at times, but increasing nfds only manages to load the disk further - it doesn't seem to reduce timeouts. However, I don't understand why a mount on a single client will go AWOL - and never come back - while all the others will continue to work properly. Are there any commands that would allow me to figure out why the mount has stopped working? I've looked at nfsstat and the kernel seems to have stopped sending any data to the server, or it may send one packet every couple of seconds. If I start up another shell and try to do an ls on the problem filesystem, the command locks up and can't be interrupted. I think I've also mounted the same filesystem in another location, on the same machine, and it works fine. Josh --- Trond Myklebust wrote: > >>>>> " " == Joshua Weage writes: > > > Any suggestions on what could be causing this? > > Have you read through the sections pertaining to these problems in > the > NFS HOWTO and NFS FAQ? If not, see http://nfs.sourceforge.net > > Cheers, > Trond ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com