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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: file open for write fails under stress
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:23:57 -0400
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On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 00:51 +0200, Omry Yadan wrote:
> I have an application that open many files for writing very fast, in a
> way - it can almost be looked as a file system stress test.
> 
> 
> my application is single threaded, and I noticed the following problem
> when running a single instance of it:
> 
> 
> at some point, after opening (and closing) many files for writing, the
> application fails to open a file for writing.
> 
> if I sleep for 1 second and try again, it works.

What version of nfs, filesystem on the server, export options, mount
options,...?

Cheers
  Trond