New thread since this is a DLM issue :) > As I understand it, basically the first node to access a file must do some > lock checks - see if anyone has already locked it, attempt to lock it, let > the other nodes know about it, etc. I think I see what's going on. I see the following error in my logs which suggests to me that every connection is being checked since locking is not happening. Jan 29 11:24:04 compdev kernel: GFS: fsid=compweb:web.0: jid=3: replays = 0, skips = 1, sames = 24 Jan 29 11:24:04 compdev kernel: GFS: fsid=compweb:web.0: jid=3: Journal replayed in 1s Jan 29 11:24:04 compdev kernel: GFS: fsid=compweb:web.0: jid=3: Done Jan 29 11:30:10 compdev kernel: dlm: could not bind to local address for connect: -98 Jan 29 11:35:40 compdev kernel: dlm: could not bind to local address for connect: -98 Jan 29 11:38:35 compdev kernel: dlm: could not bind to local address for connect: -98 I'm not finding a lot on google about how to go about finding the problem, fixing it. Mike -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster