Return-Path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.26]:49303 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754475Ab0A0Sri convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:47:38 -0500 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id d26so1570755eyd.19 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:47:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1264617603.3788.77.camel@localhost> References: <7A24DF798E223B4C9864E8F92E8C93EC0527810C@SACMVEXC1-PRD.hq.netapp.com> <0BA6F612-CE3A-47E9-B436-57E48506D769@oracle.com> <641EC97D-2252-41FB-AEE8-0F1B77B5EA65@oracle.com> <20100126232148.GA806@fieldses.org> <4B608492.2020702@oracle.com> <1264617603.3788.77.camel@localhost> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:47:34 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: nfs client performance while server is down From: Whoop Whouzer To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Chuck Lever , "J. Bruce Fields" , "Muntz, Daniel" , Peter Chacko , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 ok, but it's not just GNOME/nautilus behaviour. For one, I am experiencing problems with just about all applications that require (local) disk access. Furthermore, problems have also been reported with xfce/thunar and also with KDE. A bug for this issue has just been created for xfce/thunar: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6185 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 13:23 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: >> On 01/26/2010 06:21 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> > I wonder if nautilus (or some library it uses) likes to regularly >> > "statfs" all the filesystems it knows about? >> >> The NFS client seems to like to send these periodically, but I've never >> looked into why. ?It's probably triggered by some cache timeout, and >> gathers recent server file system information. > > No. It is entirely application driven. Furthermore, most of the statfs > data is uncached, since it should not be performance critical in any > sane application environment. > > IOW: I agree with Bruce that this is most likely GNOME or nautilus > triggering statfs calls. Indeed, when I do actually open a window on > some directory it also appears to display the free space. > > Trond > > >