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From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
To: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS4 over VPN hangs when connecting > 2 clients
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:20:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqchn64e.fsf@inspiron.ap.columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878vj7x6mj.fsf@vostro.rath.org> (Nikolaus Rath's message of "Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:34:44 -0500")

Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus-BTH8mxji4b0@public.gmane.org> writes:
> The problem is that as soon as more than three clients are accessing the
> NFS shares, any operations on the NFS mountpoints by the clients hang.
> At the same time, CPU usage of the VPN processes becomes very high. If I
> run the VPN in debug mode, all I can see is that it is busy forwarding
> lots of packets. I also ran a packet sniffer which showed me that 90% of
> the packets were NFS related, but I am not familiar enough with NFS to
> be able to tell anything from the packets themselves. I can provide an
> example of the dump if that helps.

I have put a screenshot of the dump on
http://www.rath.org/res/wireshark.png (the full dump is 18 MB, and I'm
not sure which parts are important).

Any suggestions how I could further debug this?

Best,

   -Nikolaus

-- 
 »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.«

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-11  1:34 NFS4 over VPN hangs when connecting > 2 clients Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-12 16:20 ` Nikolaus Rath [this message]
2012-03-12 19:31   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-12 19:45     ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-12 20:15       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-12 20:30         ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-12 20:42           ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-12 20:49             ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-12 21:04               ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-12 21:14                 ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-12 21:27                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-19 16:28                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-19 16:44                       ` [nfsv4] " Rick Macklem
2012-03-19 17:06                         ` Rick Macklem
2012-03-19 17:36                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-19 17:47                             ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-19 18:24                               ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-19 18:27                               ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-19 18:29                                 ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-19 18:39                                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-19 18:42                                     ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-19 18:54                                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-19 19:00                                         ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-19 19:08                                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-19 18:43                                     ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-19 22:25                                       ` Rick Macklem
2012-03-20 13:29                                         ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-20 13:55                                           ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-20 14:36                                             ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-20 16:49                                               ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-20 14:01                                           ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-20 14:38                                             ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-20 15:53                                               ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-19 18:51                                     ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-19 18:56                                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-03-19 22:31                               ` Rick Macklem
2012-03-19 18:26                       ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-12 21:24         ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-12 21:27           ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-12 21:38             ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-12 21:46               ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-12 21:54                 ` Chuck Lever
2012-03-12 21:54                 ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-12 21:57                 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-03-13 13:23                   ` Nikolaus Rath
2012-03-13 14:50                     ` Myklebust, Trond

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