nfsd CPU usage?

[Mark Saad]

Rick
  Would this affect 9.2-RCn ? 

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Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org


On Sep 11, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> Lars Eggert wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm seeing extremely high CPU usage withssh-st the new nfsd:
>> 
>>  PID USERNAME   PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU
>>  COMMAND
>> 2280 root       102    0  9932K  1376K *nfs_c  0 320:11 100.00%
>> nfsd{nfsd: service}
>> 2280 root       102    0  9932K  1376K CPU7    7 319:47 100.00%
>> nfsd{nfsd: service}
>> 2280 root       102    0  9932K  1376K CPU5    5 318:25 100.00%
>> nfsd{nfsd: service}
>> 2280 root       102    0  9932K  1376K CPU6    6 318:20 100.00%
>> nfsd{nfsd: service}
>> 2280 root        52    0  9932K  1376K CPU0    0 317:32 100.00%
>> nfsd{nfsd: service}
>> 2280 root       102    0  9932K  1376K *nfs_c  1 315:41 99.17%
>> nfsd{nfsd: service}
>> 2280 root        52    0  9932K  1376K *nfs_c  4 320:22 98.78%
>> nfsd{nfsd: master}
>> 2280 root       102    0  9932K  1376K *nfs_c  1 317:10 98.10%
>> nfsd{nfsd: service}
>> 
>> And this is at a few hundred KB/s with only a few clients:
>> 
>> ifstat -i igb1 10
>>       igb1
>> KB/s in  KB/s out
>>  796.56    208.66
>>  431.19    232.36
>>  316.11    280.31
>> 1005.96    523.42
>> 1077.74    342.25
>>  340.63    217.73
>> 1067.96    330.56
>>  487.91    235.61
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> FreeBSD stanley.muccbc.hq.netapp.com 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
>> 9.2-PRERELEASE #7: Wed Sep  4 11:06:31 CEST 2013
>>    root at stanley.muccbc.hq.netapp.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STANLEY
>> amd64
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Lars
> There is a patch in head (r254337) that I believe handles this.
> It will be MFC'd to stable/9 in about a week, unless someone finds
> problems with it before then.
> If you want a semantically equivalent (but uglier code) patch,
> you can find it here:
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/drc4-stable9.patch
> After applying the patch, you need to set sysctl variable(s),
> to avoid the aggressive trimming of stale DRC entries. Garrett
> Wollman suggests the following for a large server:
> vfs.nfsd.tcphighwater=100000
> vfs.nfsd.tcpcachetimeout=300 (5 minutes instead of default of several hrs)
> 
> You can also use the sysctl
> vfs.nfsd.cachetcp=0
> to disable use of the DRC for TCP.
> 
> The old nfs server did not use the DRC for TCP. The assumption being that
> TCP layer retransmits are good enough to maintain reliable RPC transport.
> Unfortuantely, you can get file corruption when the server reboots or
> there is a network partitioning, if the client chooses to redo the RPC
> over TCP (clients always do this after having to create a new TCP connection).
> In other words, vfs.nfsd.cachetcp=0 is roughly what the old nfsd did.
> 
> If you don't want to patch the 9.2 code, you can edit the sources
> (sys/fs/nfsserver/nfs_nfsdcache.c) and change the line:
> static int nfsrc_tcpnonidempotent = 1;
> to
> static int nfsrc_tcpnonidempotent = 0;
> to do the same thing as vfs.nfsd.cachetcp=0
> 
> rick
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