Description of problem: I am seeing an excessive number of LOOKUP operations by an NFS client, suggesting that it isn't properly caching file handles. Clients that were suffering from this were fixed by unmounting, then remounting the NFS export, or rebooting. The large number of LOOKUP operations on the client side were also showing up as increased NFS operations on the Netapp filer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELhugemem i686 How reproducible: Every time, although I am unsure what caused this behavior to start. Server has been online for 64 days, problem really flared up 17 days ago. Steps to Reproduce: Unsure how to reproduce this. Actual results: Data from nfsstat -c on a client with the problem: Client nfs v3: null getattr setattr lookup access readlink 0 0% 1048958609 19% 0 0% -1651855508 49% 1349795992 25% 1627002 0% read write create mkdir symlink mknod 301676403 5% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% remove rmdir rename link readdir readdirplus 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 43 0% 6976 0% fsstat fsinfo pathconf commit 20 0% 9 0% 0 0% 0 0% Expected results: nfsstat -c data from a client where the export was remounted: Client rpc stats: calls retrans authrefrsh 795066531 397 0 Client nfs v3: null getattr setattr lookup access readlink 0 0% 1066345453 20% 1 0% -1919703917 46% 1345397300 26% 1629669 0% read write create mkdir symlink mknod 301387612 5% 8 0% 1 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% remove rmdir rename link readdir readdirplus 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 155 0% 10104 0% fsstat fsinfo pathconf commit 132 0% 13 0% 0 0% 0 0% Additional info:
Hi Tom - There's not enough info here to make any suggestions as to what might be causing the increase nfs transactions you are seeing. There have been several nfs bugs fixed since 2.4.21-47.0.1. Can you reproduce this issue with the latest rhel3 kernel (2.4.21-57.EL)? Have you had a chance to open a ticket with Red Hat support at support.redhat.com? If not, please do. Note: Bugzilla is used to track bugs once they have been triaged. There are no service guarantees associated with a bugzilla ticket.