Interactions with mxge, pf, nfsd, and the kernel
Bob Healey
healer at rpi.edu
Wed Jul 2 15:17:45 UTC 2014
Hello.
I've been wrestling with this on and off for a few months now. I have
an assortment of systems (some Dell Poweredge R515, R610, and IBM
x3630M3) with 10 gig Myricom ethernet cards acting as nfs servers to
Linux HPC compute clusters (12-36 nodes, 384 - 480 cores) connected via
gigabit ethernet. They are also connected to the outside world via
onboard bce (Dell) or igb (IBM). After a variable length of time, I
will lose all network access to a host. Connecting via console, the
machine tends to be fully responsive. A reboot clears the problem, but
I have yet to figure out any sysctls/loader.conf tunables to clear the
problem and make it stay away. PF is in use to restrict access to the
host to a pair of public /24's, and to 10/8. If there is a way in zfs's
sharenfs property to make that restriction, I'd be happy to change, but
I really don't like leaving nfs open to the university's quartet of
/16's, so PF it is. The vlan2 interface has mxge0 as its parent.
Thanks for any help.
This host is getting ready to crash soon, based on netstat.
root at husker:~ # netstat -i
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Opkts
Oerrs Coll
mxge0 9000 <Link#1> 00:60:dd:44:d2:0a 6358280 262 0
4061637 0 0
mxge0 9000 fe80::260:ddf fe80::260:ddff:fe 0 - -
2 - -
bce0 1500 <Link#2> 08:9e:01:50:a1:ac 276391 0 0
0 0 0
bce0 1500 fe80::a9e:1ff fe80::a9e:1ff:fe5 0 - -
3 - -
bce1 1500 <Link#3> 08:9e:01:50:a1:ad 2229709391 16921 0
1182942116 0 0
bce1 1500 128.113.12.0 husker 2226254093 - -
1183962005 - -
bce1 1500 fe80::a9e:1ff fe80::a9e:1ff:fe5 0 - -
3 - -
lo0 16384 <Link#4> 2030 0 0
2030 0 0
lo0 16384 localhost ::1 4 - -
4 - -
lo0 16384 fe80::1%lo0 fe80::1 0 - -
0 - -
lo0 16384 your-net localhost 2026 - -
2026 - -
vlan2 9000 <Link#5> 00:60:dd:44:d2:0a 4387250 0 0
3060586 0 0
vlan2 9000 10.2.3.0 husker.galactica. 4370309 - -
3963931 - -
vlan2 9000 fe80::260:ddf fe80::260:ddff:fe 0 - -
2 - -
vlan2 9000 <Link#6> 00:60:dd:44:d2:0a 1971034 0 0
1001061 0 0
vlan2 9000 10.2.4.0 husker.enterprise 1700742 - -
1961891 - -
vlan2 9000 fe80::260:ddf fe80::260:ddff:fe 0 - -
4 - -
root at husker:~ # netstat -im
6157/3233/9390 mbufs in use (current/cache/total)
4081/1883/5964/1018800 mbuf clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
4080/795 mbuf+clusters out of packet secondary zone in use (current/cache)
0/5/5/509399 4k (page size) jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
512/23/535/150933 9k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
0/0/0/84899 16k jumbo clusters in use (current/cache/total/max)
14309K/4801K/19110K bytes allocated to network (current/cache/total)
10/1883/0 requests for mbufs denied (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
0/0/0 requests for mbufs delayed (mbufs/clusters/mbuf+clusters)
0/0/0 requests for jumbo clusters delayed (4k/9k/16k)
2/1736/0 requests for jumbo clusters denied (4k/9k/16k)
0 requests for sfbufs denied
0 requests for sfbufs delayed
0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile
root at husker:~ # uptime
11:07AM up 23 days, 19:27, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.17, 0.13
root at husker:~ # sysctl -a | grep nmb
kern.ipc.nmbclusters: 1018800
kern.ipc.nmbjumbop: 509399
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo9: 452799
kern.ipc.nmbjumbo16: 339596
kern.ipc.nmbufs: 6520320
root at husker:~ # cat /boot/loader.conf
zfs_load="YES"
amdtemp_load="YES"
if_mxge_load="YES"
mxge_ethp_z8e_load="YES"
mxge_eth_z8e_load="YES"
mxge_rss_ethp_z8e_load="YES"
mxge_rss_eth_z8e_load="YES"
vfs.zfs.arc_max="12288M"
root at husker:~ # cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | head -16
Copyright (c) 1992-2014 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Jun 3 13:14:57 UTC 2014
root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
FreeBSD clang version 3.3 (tags/RELEASE_33/final 183502) 20130610
CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4122 (2200.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x100f80 Family = 0x10 Model = 0x8
Stepping = 0
Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
Features2=0x802009<SSE3,MON,CX16,POPCNT>
AMD
Features=0xee500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
AMD
Features2=0x837ff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,SKINIT,WDT,NodeId>
TSC: P-state invariant
real memory = 17179869184 (16384 MB)
avail memory = 16588054528 (15819 MB)
--
Bob Healey
Systems Administrator
Biocomputation and Bioinformatics Constellation
and Molecularium
healer at rpi.edu
(518) 276-4407
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