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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Christopher Hawkins <chawkins@bplinux.com>,
	linux-nfs <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nfs4 hang
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:55:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274982901.20557.1.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100527170829.GA11559@fieldses.org>

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:08 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 01:17:01PM -0400, Christopher Hawkins wrote:
> > Thanks Bruce, it does appear that idmapd is somehow related to this
> > issue. However, I'm stumped because it does exist on the client, along
> > with all the libraries it requires (according to ldd, anyway).
> 
> And /etc/passwd, and whatever other files it might decide it needs to
> open to do its work?
> 
> > Is
> > there an easy way to disable idmapd while still running nfs4 to
> > determine if it is causing the hang?
> 
> Not that I know of.

Why would you need to? 'Magic sysrq-trigger t' will show you if the
idmapper is deadlocked inside the NFS filesystem (as will the equivalent
'echo t >/proc/sysrq-trigger').

  Trond


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-27 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2212784.91274721147769.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost>
2010-05-24 17:17 ` nfs4 hang Christopher Hawkins
2010-05-27 17:08   ` J. Bruce Fields
2010-05-27 17:55     ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
     [not found] <23795442.851274476971674.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost>
2010-05-21 21:24 ` Christopher Hawkins
2010-05-22 15:11   ` Christopher Hawkins
2010-05-24 17:14     ` J. Bruce Fields
     [not found] <3726796.301274385081605.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost>
2010-05-20 19:54 ` Christopher Hawkins
2010-05-21 17:08   ` J. Bruce Fields

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