NFS client/buffer cache deadlock
Brian Fundakowski Feldman
green at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 27 12:06:28 PDT 2005
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 08:42:03PM +0200, Marc Olzheim wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 02:34:35PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> > Alright, thanks for helping with this :-) Do you think you can find
> > a way to tell if in 4.x you're actually using NFSv3/transactions? I
> > would really like to know why 4.x isn't deadlocking, and that's the
> > most plausible explanation I can think of right now.
> >
> > The behavior could also be totally different due to nfsiod, lack thereof,
> > or its settings. Are you running nfsiod on 4.x, and if so, how many?
> > On 5.x+ the default maximum of nfsiods is 20.
>
> The install I ran the speedtest on is:
>
> FreeBSD baroque.ilse.net 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #23: Wed Aug 4 15:18:52 CEST 2004 root at tango.ilse.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BAROQUE i386
>
> and runs 6 nfsiods.
>
> How can I tell whether it uses transactions ?
I am not sure -- it should with NFSv3 though. Does "mount -v" tell
you anything more detailed? I suppose that nfsstat may also be used
-- the "commit" count should only increase when it does an NFSv3
commit operation.
> The NFS server is mounted with:
>
> mount_nfs -c -P -a 0 -r 8192 -w 8192 -i -o rw,noatime,nointr host:/path /nfs/host/path
So the only really visible difference is 6 nfsiod versus 20 nfsiod. I
think if you increased the nfsiod on that 4.x box to something much
higher it would deadlock the same, then, assuming that all else is
equal.
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