Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Tue, 20 May 2003 14:29:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phase1.unl.edu (phase1.unl.edu [129.93.40.21]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h4KLTK2x030975 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 14:29:21 -0700 Received: from localhost (furukawa@localhost) by phase1.unl.edu (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA76398 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 16:27:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 16:27:50 -0500 (CDT) From: Mako Furukawa To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: XFS nfsd problems Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 4093 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: furukawa@phase1.unl.edu Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 1906 Lines: 54 It seems as though we've been having problems with our filesystem server ever since we went to XFS. Everytime we try doing anything large on it, the kupdated seems to take a heavy load, and nfsd seems to freeze up on us. Any ideas? We are using 2.4.18-4SGI_XFS_1.1smp. ps xwo pid,command,wchan gives us the following (there is more but I cropped some of the nfsd schedule_timeouts out). PID COMMAND WCHAN 1 init [3] schedule_timeout 2 [keventd] context_thread 3 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] ksoftirqd 4 [ksoftirqd_CPU1] ksoftirqd 5 [kswapd] schedule_timeout 6 [bdflush] bdflush 7 [kupdated] schedule_timeout 8 [pagebuf_daemon] pagebuf_daemon 9 [mdrecoveryd] md_thread 15 [scsi_eh_0] down_interruptible 16 [scsi_eh_1] down_interruptible 18 [scsi_eh_2] down_interruptible 652 syslogd -m 0 schedule_timeout 657 klogd -2 do_syslog 857 /usr/sbin/sshd schedule_timeout 890 xinetd -stayaliv schedule_timeout 900 /opt/arkeia/bin/ schedule_timeout 941 rpc.rquotad schedule_timeout 946 rpc.mountd schedule_timeout 951 [nfsd] - 952 [nfsd] schedule_timeout 953 [nfsd] schedule_timeout 990 [nfsd] down 991 [nfsd] schedule_timeout 992 [nfsd] schedule_timeout 993 [lockd] schedule_timeout 994 [rpciod] end 1012 /usr/sbin/dhcpd schedule_timeout 1048 crond schedule_timeout 1159 /sbin/mingetty t schedule_timeout 1160 /sbin/mingetty t schedule_timeout 1161 /sbin/mingetty t schedule_timeout 1162 /sbin/mingetty t schedule_timeout 1163 /sbin/mingetty t schedule_timeout 1164 /sbin/mingetty t schedule_timeout 1167 /usr/sbin/sshd schedule_timeout 1169 -bash wait4 1246 ps xwo pid,comma - I'd appreciate any input. Thank you for your time, Mako Furukawa