From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NFS regression? Odd delays and lockups accessing an NFS export.
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:15:36 -0400
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On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 23:09 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> (added some quoting from previous mail to save replying twice)
> 
> On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:19 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:17 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > >From the tcpdump, it looks as if the NFS server is failing to close the
> > > socket, when the client closes its side. You therefore end up getting
> > > stuck in the FIN_WAIT2 state (as netstat clearly shows above).
> > >
> > > Is the server keeping the client in this state for a very long
> > > period?
> 
> Well, it had been around an hour and a half on this occasion. Next time
> it happens I can wait longer but I'm pretty sure I've come back from
> time away and it's been wedged for at least a day. How long would you
> expect it to remain in this state for?

The server should ideally start to close the socket as soon as it
receives the FIN from the client. I'll have a look at the code.

Trond