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From: Max Kellermann <max-hDT0AjmEH7RAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High load in 2.6.27, NFS / rpcauth_lookup_credcache()?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:58:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027095843.GA10937@squirrel.roonstrasse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224871763.22672.33.camel@localhost>

On 2008/10/24 20:09, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> OK, could you please describe your environment a bit. Do you have lots
> of different users logged in at the same time, or do you perhaps use
> newgrp or su to switch uid/gids a lot on your processes?
> I'm trying to see if there might be a reason for the lookup in the
> credcache being such a heavy duty operation in your setup.

It's a web server for shared hosting.  The web space is mounted via
NFSv3 from a NetApp.  There is a huge number of web sites on this
cluster.  All web sites are owned by the same UID, and the web server
runs as a different UID (read-only access).

Each time a CGI starts, its uid is changed to the one "owner" UID
(similar to mod_suexec, but there's only one UID for all customer
accounts).  Each time a CGI starts, its chroot (pivot_root) is
constructed with several bind mounts (in a separate namespace with
CLONE_NEWNS).

There are no new users or groups being created.  There are only 2 UIDs
accessing NFS: the webserver (ro) and CGI (rw).

Max

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From: Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: High load in 2.6.27, NFS / rpcauth_lookup_credcache()?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:58:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027095843.GA10937@squirrel.roonstrasse.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224871763.22672.33.camel@localhost>

On 2008/10/24 20:09, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> OK, could you please describe your environment a bit. Do you have lots
> of different users logged in at the same time, or do you perhaps use
> newgrp or su to switch uid/gids a lot on your processes?
> I'm trying to see if there might be a reason for the lookup in the
> credcache being such a heavy duty operation in your setup.

It's a web server for shared hosting.  The web space is mounted via
NFSv3 from a NetApp.  There is a huge number of web sites on this
cluster.  All web sites are owned by the same UID, and the web server
runs as a different UID (read-only access).

Each time a CGI starts, its uid is changed to the one "owner" UID
(similar to mod_suexec, but there's only one UID for all customer
accounts).  Each time a CGI starts, its chroot (pivot_root) is
constructed with several bind mounts (in a separate namespace with
CLONE_NEWNS).

There are no new users or groups being created.  There are only 2 UIDs
accessing NFS: the webserver (ro) and CGI (rw).

Max

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-27  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-22  9:12 High load in 2.6.27, NFS / rpcauth_lookup_credcache()? Max Kellermann
2008-10-22  9:12 ` Max Kellermann
     [not found] ` <20081022091207.GA12996-2pNSKKP3PSJxEiad3KpGLI/oZP4lHnOC@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-22 17:56   ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-10-22 17:56     ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-10-23 12:36   ` Max Kellermann
2008-10-23 12:36     ` Max Kellermann
2008-10-23 14:55     ` Trond Myklebust
2008-10-24  8:39       ` Max Kellermann
2008-10-24  8:39         ` Max Kellermann
     [not found]         ` <20081024083913.GA15197-2pNSKKP3PSJxEiad3KpGLI/oZP4lHnOC@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-24 18:09           ` Trond Myklebust
2008-10-24 18:09             ` Trond Myklebust
2008-10-27  9:58             ` Max Kellermann [this message]
2008-10-27  9:58               ` Max Kellermann
     [not found]               ` <20081027095843.GA10937-2pNSKKP3PSJxEiad3KpGLI/oZP4lHnOC@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-27 15:48                 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-10-27 15:48                   ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]                   ` <1225122503.14242.12.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-17 12:35                     ` Max Kellermann
2008-11-17 12:35                       ` Max Kellermann
     [not found]                       ` <20081117123536.GA16539-2pNSKKP3PSJxEiad3KpGLI/oZP4lHnOC@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-19 22:31                         ` Trond Myklebust
2008-11-19 22:31                           ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]                           ` <1227133861.28898.26.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-20 14:08                             ` Max Kellermann
2008-11-20 14:08                               ` Max Kellermann
2008-12-15 23:44       ` Harry Edmon
2008-12-15 23:44         ` Harry Edmon
     [not found]         ` <4946EBFA.60700-qmPYOCrcNLLyFCzt5hm0YvZ8FUJU4vz8@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-16 13:02           ` Trond Myklebust
2008-12-16 13:02             ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]             ` <1229432553.7257.4.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-16 21:21               ` Willy Tarreau
2008-12-16 21:21                 ` Willy Tarreau
     [not found]                 ` <20081216212155.GA581-K+wRfnb2/UA@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-16 23:21                   ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-12-16 23:21                     ` Greg KH

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