J. Bruce Fields [bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 11:20:45AM -0500, Malahal Naineni wrote: > > jupiter [jupiter.hce@xxxxxxxxx] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am running NFS 4 server on CentOS 6.4 for many months, it works > > > well. Recently I found that the dmesg display many following errors > > > but it still works. I searched google but could not find result of how > > > to fix it. What are those error message means? Are the errors serious > > > or not? How to fix it? > > > > > > -------- > > > rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -32 when sending 24 bytes - shutting down socket > > > rpc-srv/tcp: nfsd: got error -32 when sending 24 bytes - shutting down socket > > > > When the nfsd (NFS server thread) was trying to send something, it got > > -32 (EPIPE) error. I have seen this kind of errors when the socket is > > closed by clients. Clients do close the socket (and recreate one) when > > they need to retry due to network failures. > > > > They are NOT serious errors, and if they are still happening, then look > > at your network errors/retries etc. > > We should really just demote this to a dprintk, in that case. > > The network failures are potentially a serious problem if they mean the > client's forced to retry a nonidempotent operation. But we probably > shouldn't be spamming the logs by default? I haven't seen many of these messages. That is the only message logged when the socket gets closed. It is a KERN_NOTICE level message. We can rate limit it, but in my experience, I haven't seen a need for rate limiting it. Regards, Malahal. -- 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