Re: 2.6.26.3 kernel - progressive slowdown over NFS

["Priyank Patel" <pkpatel.lists@gmail.com>]

Resending.  Any pointers to other lists or more specific information
which might be required ?

Thanks,
-P

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On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Priyank Patel <pkpatel.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> We have a simple python program which keeps running a C loop to lstat
> NFS mounted directories.  We are seeing some weird behavior w.r.t. the
> run-time of this program on 2.6.26.3 kernel vs 2.6.24 kernel.
>
> The run-time of the following code increases over time on the 2.6.26.3
> kernel, whereas remains flat (as expected) on the 2.6.24 kernel.
> [See attached graphs - B1.jpg and B2.jpg]  Once the 2.6.26.3 machine
> gets into this state, we need to restart the box to get back to
> reasonable run-times.  Is this a known issue ?
>
> Setup :
>
> Machine A (2.6.26) : exports NFS directory  - /a/baz contains 10,000
> directories bar0 ... bar9999
> /a/baz        *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,subtree_check)
>
> Machine B1 (2.6.26.3) : mounts NFS dir RO from A - graph B1.jpg
> 10.x.x.x:/a/baz on /baz type nfs
> (ro,vers=3,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,namlen=255,hard,nointr,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=11,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountproto=udp,addr=10.x.x.x)
>
> Machine B2 (2.6.24) : mounts NFS dir RO from A - graph B2.jpg
> 10.x.x.x:/a/baz on /baz type nfs
> (ro,vers=3,rsize=4096,wsize=4096,hard,nointr,nolock,proto=udp,timeo=11,retrans=2,sec=sys,addr=10.x.x.x)
>
> Repro :
>
> B1 and B2, run the following python program :
> {{{
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import os
> import sys
> import time
>
> while True:
>    t1 = time.time()
>    rv = os.system("/a.out 10000 >& /dev/null")   # lstat the 10000
> directories mounted via NFS
>    t2 = time.time()
>    print >> sys.stderr, "%.3f" % (t2 - t1), rv
> }}}
>
> where a.out is the following C code :
>
> {{{
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   int i, n = atoi(argv[1]);
>   char filename[64];
>   struct stat statbuf;
>
>   for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
>      sprintf(filename, "/baz/bar%d", i);
>      lstat(filename, &statbuf);
>   }
>
>   printf("done\n");
>   return 0;
> }
> }}}
>
> Attachments :
>
> B1.jpg and B2.jpg - runtimes on the 2 client machines -
> X-axis : iteration number
> Y-axis : run-time
>
> Config files : - for the machines B1, B2 and A
>
> b1.2.6.26.3.config
> b2.2.6.24.config
> a.2.6.26.config
>
>
> - P
>