On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 02:40:44PM -0400, Peter Skensved wrote: > Thanks for the reply. The current RedHat EL5 kernels are all based on 2.6.18 with > a lot of backported fixes so I'm not sure what version of the NFS code I'm effectively > running. > > Do you know what the state_owners are used for ? What puzzles me is that in our case They represent some notion of "who" is performing an open, or performing a lock. > we have a large number of workstations which NFS mounts some fairly large, mostly static > common directories and automounts HOME directories. So I would expect the amount of state > info that needs to be kept would be fairly constant. When the automounter unmounts the > info ought to go away . Yet the number of stateowners for the most part just keep on > growing. > > The only work around at the moment is to reboot before it has eaten up around 500 Mb > of slabs Is someone doing a lot of file locking? I can't remember the logic the server uses to decide when to throw away a lockowner, but it may just be inadequate. The client has also had some fixes recently to be better about telling the server when to throw them away. --b. -- 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
