From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nivedita Singhvi Subject: Re: Send-Q not being emptied Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 17:10:56 -0800 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3E178620.53128BE6@us.ibm.com> References: <3E1702F2.9000105@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: niv@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Dave Hansen Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Dave Hansen wrote: > > I'm seeing some strange behavior running Specweb99 with > 2.4.19-64GB-SMP on the clients, and 2.5.50 on the server. I'm using > Apache/2.0.43. The load is fairly low, ~1000 (this is an 8-way P4). > > The client program is sitting blocked on a socket read(). It's > netstat entry looks like this (I clipped off the PID/Program part): > Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > 0 0 192.168.1.100:35486 192.168.1.1:80 ESTABLISHED > The server side's netstat (httpd): > 0 120184 192.168.1.1:80 192.168.1.100:35486 ESTABLISHED > It will stay like this for several minutes at a time, until the > Specweb99 client program usually times out complaining with something > like this: > Sat Jan 4 10:05:28 2003 HTTPGetReply: got 272144, expected 614400 > > But, this doesn't always happen to the client, and sometimes it will > stay blocking on that socket read() forever. This keeps me from > getting any completed benchmark runs because there are always 1 or two > of these stragglers. hmmm, send side window was closed and we lost an update? or we had a lot of successive drops and we're backed off and client terminated before we retransmitted? but, why doesnt the client time out in all instances? is the send side always still around in established state? if the sending thread got killed for some reason, the client might have gotten a reset back.. > Why isn't the client's read ever completing, even if the server has > data in its send queue? I'm sure that the cable is plugged in :) you've probably turned off sack etc, right? what are your settings? taking a look at the stats would be useful..also tried pinging just to make sure the interface is still up and not jammed? thanks, Nivedita