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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Anna Langley <jal58@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: slow NFS locking "lockd: failed to monitor xxxxx"
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:17:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185470264.6585.242.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A8C058.40709@cam.ac.uk>

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 16:40 +0100, Anna Langley wrote:
> [1] slow NFS locking, dmesg reports "lockd: failed to monitor xxxxx"

Which tells you that rpc.statd either isn't running, or isn't able to
receive RPC calls. Note that rpc.statd has to run on both the client and
the server.

> [2] Applications which set locks in NFS mounted home directories start
> very slowly.
> 
> dmesg shows the following, repeated over and over:
> 
> lockd: cannot monitor cabinet
> lockd: failed to monitor cabinet

See above. You need to fix your rpc.statd.

Trond


      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-26 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-26 15:40 PROBLEM: slow NFS locking "lockd: failed to monitor xxxxx" Anna Langley
2007-07-26 17:17 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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