Re: [NFS] Server-side locking issue

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 07:18:16PM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> Today, apparently at random, we had a locking problem on our LAN. Client
> applications hung, restarting them led to hangs, and the client dmesgs
> showed a familiar:
> 
>     [443619.682118] lockd: server anthem not responding, still trying
> 
> So the server lockd apparently stopped responding to clients, and
> restarting clients got us nowhere. Eventually we cycled the server and
> everything's back to normal, but I'm pretty confused as to what
> happened. I couldn't scrape any evidence on the server that would point
> to why this happened -- no OOPS, error or even warning output.
> 
> I was reading through the thread at
> http://groups.google.com.br/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/6c7b5e49a46aef75/91adbb9f298db509?lnk=st&q=nfs+locking+server#91adbb9f298db509
> and figured that it might be a similar problem I'm facing, but I'm not
> entirely sure as it's hard to say if somebody interrupted a client
> program or not (it's a large diskless network).

I don't think the server stopped responding to clients in the case
Miklos described.

Perhaps a sysrq-T dump of lockd would show where (and whether) it's
blocked?  (So once lockd stops responding, log into the server, run
"echo t >/proc/sysrq-trigger", and collect the output from the logs,
especially the stacktrace for the lockd process).

> 
> Clients run 2.6.24-16-generic (stock Ubuntu Hardy) and server is
> 2.6.22-14-generic (stock Ubuntu Gutsy).
> 
> If the problem happens again, what can I do on server and client to
> further debug the problem? And is there a utility that clears locks that
> we could use to avoid having to restart the server (acking the risks in
> cleared locks)?

If the server lockd has completely stopped responding to lockd requests,
then the problem isn't just a stray file lock.

--b.

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