Bernd Schubert wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2008 03:11:58 J. Bruce Fields wrote: > >> OK, so to summarize: when the rate of incoming rpc's is very high (and, >> I guess, when we're serving everything out of cache and don't have IO >> wait), all the nfsd threads will stay runable all the time. That keeps >> userspace processes from running (possibly for "minutes"). And that's a >> problem even on a server dedicated only to nfs, since it affects portmap >> and rpc.mountd. >> > > Even worse, it affects user space HA software such as heartbeat and everyone > with reasonable timeouts will see spurious 'failures'. > We're seeing that problem right now, even with the patch. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. The cake is *not* a lie. I don't speak for SGI. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
