nfs server not responding / is alive again
Alex de Kruijff
freebsd at akruijff.dds.nl
Mon Oct 4 22:22:52 PDT 2004
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:22:30AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> I'm using an nfs mount to get at the underlying file system on a system
> that uses unionfs mounts ... instead of using nullfs, which, last time I
> used it over a year ago, caused the server to crash to no end ...
>
> But, as soon as there is any 'load', I'm getting a whack of:
>
> Oct 3 22:46:16 neptune /kernel: nfs server neptune.hub.org:/vm: not
> responding
> Oct 3 22:46:16 neptune /kernel: nfs server neptune.hub.org:/vm: is alive
> again
> Oct 3 22:48:30 neptune /kernel: nfs server neptune.hub.org:/vm: not
> responding
> Oct 3 22:48:30 neptune /kernel: nfs server neptune.hub.org:/vm: is alive
> again
>
> in /var/log/messages ...
>
> I'm running nfsd with the standard flags:
>
> nfs_server_flags="-u -t -n 4"
>
> Is there something that I can do to reduce this problem? increase number
> of nfsd processes? force a tcp connection?
You could try giving the nfsd processes more priority as root with
rtprio. If the file /var/run/nfsd.pid exist then you could try something
like: rtprio 10 -`cat /var/run/nfds.pid`.
You could also try giving the other porcesses less priority like
nice -n 2 rsync. But i'm am not show how this works at the other end.
> The issue is more prevalent when I have >4 processes trying to read from
> the nfs mounts ... should there be one mount per process? the process(es)
> in question are rsync, if that helps ... they tend to be a bit more 'disk
> intensive' then most processes, which is why I thought of increasing -n
> ...
I think you're problem is not that you disk is used havely but that
you're NIC (rsync kinda does that) is. The warnings you get indicate
that you're computer can't get a responce from you're server. It acts
normaly as soon as it can.
Why do you have rsync sync mounted nfs disks?
--
Alex
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