Bug 4467

Summary: NFS and Network Appliance (NetApp) lose contact
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: sandman
Component: nfs-serverAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6.0CC: luke, vancleef, vijay
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Description sandman 1999-08-10 23:53:19 UTC 
When running RedHat 6.0 and connecting to our Network
Applicance it occasionaly (at least once a day) lose sight
of the NFS mount.

This did not occur when using RedHat5.2.

Any Ideas?

Sandy

This is a dump from /var/log/message


Jul 26 21:08:04 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: server hotnetapp001
not responding, still tryi
ng
Jul 26 21:08:04 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: server hotnetapp001
not responding, still tryi
ng
Jul 26 21:08:06 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43216 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:06 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43217 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:06 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43218 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:06 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43219 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:06 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43220 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:06 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43221 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:16 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43222 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:25 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43234 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:34 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43235 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:08:57 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: task 43236 can't get
a request slot
Jul 26 21:09:00 hotweb005 kernel: nfs: server hotnetapp001
OK
Jul 26 21:09:06 hotweb005 last message repeated 11 times
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-12 15:43:59 UTC 
What kernel and what knfsd are you running? You migh try the latest
kernel and knfsd from Raw Hide -- NFS has changed some from virgin
Red Hat 6.0 binaries ...
Comment 2 vijay 1999-08-17 17:40:59 UTC 
Hi,
We downgraded to RH 5.2. However, to use 1G memory we need to upgrade
the kernel back to 2.2.5. The nfs-server version is 2.2beta37-1
We still experienced the same nfs errors. So looks like there is some
problem with the new 2.2.5 kernel. Any ideas?
Comment 3 vijay 1999-08-18 00:53:59 UTC 
New results: We nfs mounted a 5.2 linux (2.2.5) machine
partition (/data1) to the 5.2 linux (2.0.6) machine as /data. We
loaded the cpu by doing a recursive copy of /usr to a /data/xyz.
We still get the errors:
Aug 17 05:45:14 hotweb006 kernel: NFS server hotweb001 not responding,
still try
ing.
Aug 17 05:45:14 hotweb006 kernel: NFS server hotweb001 OK.
Aug 17 05:48:18 hotweb006 kernel: NFS server hotweb001 not responding,
still try
ing.
Aug 17 05:48:18 hotweb006 kernel: NFS server hotweb001 OK.

You can easily reproduce this. I have not tried a 5.2(2.0.6) to
5.2(2.0.6) mount yet.
Comment 4 vijay 1999-08-18 22:57:59 UTC 
Just tested 5.2 (2.0.6) with 5.2 (2.0.6) nfs mounts and the same error
occurs. However, in this case the erorr is for a split second only.
Comment 5 vancleef 2000-02-09 20:12:59 UTC 
This problem has impacted our systems also.  When it strikes, all processes
using NFS files systems are effectively hung until whatever is happening runs
its course.

Feb  9 11:55:01 arwin kernel: NFS: server iris, readdir reply truncated
Feb  9 11:55:01 arwin kernel: NFS: nr=38, slots=3, len=7

I would like to see the priority on this bumped up a notch or two.