From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: issues with project quota over nfs Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:55:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20090315205516.GB26627@fieldses.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org" To: Brian Wince Return-path: Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([141.211.133.115]:41526 "EHLO pickle.fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752421AbZCOUzS (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:55:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:59:26AM -0700, Brian Wince wrote: > All, > We have a Quad-core server running gentoo 2.6.27-r7 that is used as an nfs server for a xfs partition. > We are using project quota's on directories within this partition and exporting this. > When a client tries to untar in the dir with project quotas set and reaches the quota limit the load on the NFS server goes up dramatically and stays like this for a few minutes after the tar has gone through trying to write all of it files and failing due to quota limit exceeded. > > Is this a known issue and if so is there anything that can be done to resolve this. > > We do not see this issue if on the locally mounted partition. This only happens over NFS. > > Please let me know if you need more information or if this should be addressed on a different list. It doesn't sounds familiar to me. Might also be worth cc:'ing xfs people. --b.