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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
To: Sven Geggus <lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS4ERR_DELAY (was: NFS4: ssh + unlink(~/.Xauthority) delays)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:41:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120821064100.701ec6e9@corrin.poochiereds.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k0vjq7$o7l$1@ultimate100.geggus.net>

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:19:03 +0000 (UTC)
Sven Geggus <lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de> wrote:

> Sven Geggus <lists@fuchsschwanzdomain.de> wrote:
> 
> > So the question is what cases hangs in NFS4 based Linux systems in general
> > an in this particular case?
> 
> Digging this down a little bit further using wireshark I figured out that
> the server responds to the REMOVE .Xauthority call with an NFS4ERR_DELAY for
> whatever reason.
> 
> This is a currently a test-machine with one single user and next to zero
> load.
> 
> So I will probably need a hint on how to debug the server behaviour, as a
> NFS4ERR_DELAY response is definitely not expected in this case.
> 
> Sven
> 

It's often the case that this indicates a problem communicating over
the callback channel. For instance, the server is trying to recall a
delegation but the client isn't responding, so the server has to wait
until the recall attempt times out before proceeding.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-21 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-21  8:25 NFS4: ssh + unlink(~/.Xauthority) delays Sven Geggus
2012-08-21  9:19 ` NFS4ERR_DELAY (was: NFS4: ssh + unlink(~/.Xauthority) delays) Sven Geggus
2012-08-21 10:41   ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2012-08-21 12:52     ` NFS4ERR_DELAY Sven Geggus
2012-08-21 13:07       ` NFS4ERR_DELAY Jeff Layton
2012-08-21 17:47         ` NFS4ERR_DELAY J. Bruce Fields
2012-08-22  8:33           ` NFS4ERR_DELAY Sven Geggus
2012-08-21 12:59 ` NFS4: ssh + unlink(~/.Xauthority) delays Jim Rees
2012-08-21 16:04   ` Sven Geggus
2012-08-21 17:07     ` Jim Rees
2012-08-21 18:03       ` Malahal Naineni
2012-08-21 18:42         ` Jim Rees
2012-08-21 20:59           ` J. Bruce Fields

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