Op dinsdag 14-04-2009 om 08:31 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Trond Myklebust: > On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 11:16 +0200, Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > > Op maandag 13-04-2009 om 21:25 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Rudy > > Zijlstra: > > > Op maandag 13-04-2009 om 13:08 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Chuck > > > Lever: > > > > On Apr 13, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Daniel Stickney wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:12:47 -0400 > > > > > Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> On Apr 13, 2009, at 11:24 AM, Daniel Stickney wrote: > > > > >>> Hi all, > > > > >>> > > > > >>> I am investigating some NFS mount hangs that we have started to see > > > > >>> over the past month on some of our servers. The behavior is that the > > > > >>> client mount hangs and needs to be manually unmounted (forcefully > > > > >>> with 'umount -f') and remounted to make it work. There are about 85 > > > > >>> clients mounting a partition over NFS. About 50 of the clients are > > > > >>> running Fedora Core 3 with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC3smp. Not one of > > > > >>> these 50 has ever had this mount hang. The other 35 are CentOS 5.2 > > > > >>> with kernel 2.6.27 which was compiled from source. The mount hangs > > > > >>> are inconsistent and so far I don't know how to trigger them on > > > > >>> demand. The timing of the hangs as noted by the timestamp in /var/ > > > > >>> log/messages varies. Not all of the 35 CentOS clients have their > > > > >>> mounts hang at the same time, and the NFS server continues operating > > > > >>> apparently normally for all other clients. Normally maybe 5 clients > > > > >>> have a mount hang per week, on different days, mostly different > > > > >>> times. Now and then we might see a cluster of a few clien > > > > >>> ts have their mounts hang at the same exact time, but this is not > > > > >>> consistent. In /var/log/messages we see > > > > > > > OK, i'll switch to 2.6.30 on all clients once it is out. Prefer to wait > > > for release, as they are production type machines. > > > > > > If i get a hang, i'll check with "netstat --ip" > > > > > > > Just now one of my 2.6.28.7 machines is hanging. > > netstat results in client status: > > tcp 0 0 mythm.romunt.nl:1020 repeater.romunt.nl:nfsd FIN_WAIT2 > > tcp 76 0 mythm.romunt.nl:6544 repeater.romunt.n:53854 ESTABLISHED > > > > > > and on the server i find: > > tcp 1 0 repeater.romunt.nl:nfsd mythm.romunt.nl:1020 CLOSE_WAIT > > tcp 0 0 repeater.romunt.n:53854 mythm.romunt.nl:6544 FIN_WAIT2 > > > > Which shows that the NFS server is failing to close the tcp connection > after the client has closed on its side. > > You probably want to apply this patch to your server: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=commitdiff&h=69b6ba3712b796a66595cfaf0a5ab4dfe1cf964a > > > Trond > Hi Trond Thanks, would an upgrade to 2.6.29.1 also work? Thanks, Rudy -- 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