Myklebust, Trond wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 13:55 +0200, Christoph Bartoschek wrote: >> Hi, >> >> we use Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS and often get a traceback for NFS indicating >> that the daemon hangs for several seconds. At the same time some client >> machines cannot access the server and have to wait. After some minutes >> everything goes on. >> >> What could cause the problem? Is there anything we should change? >> >> Here is the message in the kernel log: >> >> [330573.697121] INFO: task nfsd:1376 blocked for more than 120 seconds. >> [330573.708375] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" >> [disables >> this message. >> [330573.730773] nfsd D 0000000000000001 0 1376 2 >> 0x00000000 >> [330573.730776] ffff88061c21bdc0 0000000000000046 0000000000015f00 >> 0000000000015f00 >> [330573.730779] ffff88061c111ad0 ffff88061c21bfd8 0000000000015f00 >> ffff88061c111700 >> [330573.730781] 0000000000015f00 ffff88061c21bfd8 0000000000015f00 >> ffff88061c111ad0 >> [330573.730784] Call Trace: >> [330573.730788] [<ffffffff81559e67>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x107/0x190 >> [330573.730796] [<ffffffffa012300f>] ? svc_authorise+0x3f/0x50 [sunrpc] > > At a guess, I'd say that your mountd or rpc.svcgssd is probably > busy/hanging, causing the kernel NFS daemon to hang while it waits to > authorise a client or user. Typically, you will see the above in the > case of a kerberos, NIS or ldap outage. > > So are you using NIS or ldap-based netgroups in your /etc/exports, or > are your clients perhaps mounting with sys=krb5? We are still using NFS3 and NIS. We are also sometimes seeing the following problem that might be related: One user suddenly has no access to a directory and its subdirectories on a NFS share. The user always gets "permission denied". The access bits and group memberships did not change. At the same time all other users within the same groups can access the directory on the same client machine and on other client machines. After about 15 minutes the problem vanishes by itself. The user no longer gets "permission denied" and everything is normal. This happens about twice a week for different users. We see no pattern in which user is affected and when this happens. Thanks Christoph -- 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
