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From: Greg Banks <gnb-cP1dWloDopni96+mSzHFpQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
To: Bernd Schubert <bs-PKu+Ek1N2UGzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Michael Shuey <shuey-olO2ZdjDehc3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org>,
	Shehjar Tikoo <shehjart-YbfuJp6tym7X/JP9YwkgDA@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	rees@citi.umich.edu, aglo@citi.umich.edu
Subject: Re: high latency NFS
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:25:54 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4896CB22.4000005@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808041118.19743.bs-PKu+Ek1N2UGzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>

Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On Monday 04 August 2008 03:11:58 J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>   
>> OK, so to summarize: when the rate of incoming rpc's is very high (and,
>> I guess, when we're serving everything out of cache and don't have IO
>> wait), all the nfsd threads will stay runable all the time.  That keeps
>> userspace processes from running (possibly for "minutes").  And that's a
>> problem even on a server dedicated only to nfs, since it affects portmap
>> and rpc.mountd.
>>     
>
> Even worse, it affects user space HA software such as heartbeat and everyone 
> with reasonable timeouts will see spurious 'failures'. 
>   
We're seeing that problem right now, even with the patch.

-- 
Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
The cake is *not* a lie.
I don't speak for SGI.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-04  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200807241311.31457.shuey@purdue.edu>
     [not found] ` <200807241311.31457.shuey-olO2ZdjDehc3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org>
2008-07-30 19:21   ` high latency NFS J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-30 21:40     ` Shehjar Tikoo
2008-07-31  2:35       ` Michael Shuey
     [not found]         ` <200807302235.50068.shuey-olO2ZdjDehc3uPMLIKxrzw@public.gmane.org>
2008-07-31  3:15           ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-31  7:03             ` Neil Brown
     [not found]               ` <18577.25513.494821.481623-wvvUuzkyo1EYVZTmpyfIwg@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-01  7:23                 ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-01 19:15                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04  0:32                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-04  1:11                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04  2:14                         ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-04  9:18                         ` Bernd Schubert
     [not found]                           ` <200808041118.19743.bs-PKu+Ek1N2UGzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-04  9:25                             ` Greg Banks [this message]
2008-08-04  1:29                       ` NeilBrown
     [not found]                         ` <52873.192.168.1.70.1217813385.squirrel-eq65iwfR9nKIECXXMXunQA@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-04  6:42                           ` Greg Banks
     [not found]                             ` <4896A4EE.9030706-cP1dWloDopni96+mSzHFpQC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2008-08-04 19:07                               ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-05 10:51                                 ` Greg Banks
2008-08-01 19:23                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-08-04  0:38                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-04  8:04     ` Greg Banks

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