Re: Massive NFS problems on large cluster with large number of mounts

Chuck Lever
2008-07-17T15:11:27Z

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:48 AM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:47:25AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:06 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
>> > The immediate problem seems like a kernel bug to me--it seems to me that
>> > the calls to local daemons should be ignoring {min_,max}_resvport. (Or
>> > is there some way the daemons can still know that those calls come from
>> > the local kernel?)
>>
>> I tend to agree. The rpcbind client (at least) does specifically
>> require a privileged port, so a large min/max port range would be out
>> of the question for those rpc_clients.
>
> Any chance I could talk you into doing a patch for that?

I can look at it when I get back next week.

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