From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Russell Miller <duskglow@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfs NULL procedure packets
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:45:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204184522.GA7575@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4eea36270812031011x5f014b04q352af666cacb2f93@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:11:26AM -0800, Russell Miller wrote:
> Hi again, I was hoping someone here could answer another question. I
> apologize if these are easy questions...
>
> So a couple of days ago I was troubleshooting yet another NFS problem
> (not the non-one I described a few days ago). I sent a 1G file over
> to a server, did a TCP capture, and analyzed the results.
>
> I noticed a lot of NULL procedure packets. A *lot* of them. In some
> cases, one every 10 microseconds, and there were about 400,000 of them
> I captured.
>
> This seems like a lot of network traffic for very little reason.
>
> Is this normal behavior, or something I should investigate further?
> It seems to me like pinging the NFS server once every 10 microseconds
> is a major waste of bandwidth.
It's either a bug, or you're misreading the traces--how are you
identifying these as NULL procedures? Also, are they NULL NFS calls, or
some other rpc protocol? And are you using krb5?
--b.
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