Return-Path: Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:40320 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934278Ab1ETUXy (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2011 16:23:54 -0400 Received: by pzk9 with SMTP id 9so1819842pzk.19 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 13:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DD6CDD7.60503@uw.edu> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:23:51 -0700 From: Harry Edmon To: Trond Myklebust CC: "Dr. J. Bruce Fields" , Chuck Lever , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.38.6 - state manager constantly respawns References: <05D08339-888C-4A64-BDC5-8667B3901E7A@oracle.com> <4DD1772E.9010609@uw.edu> <6A6FB1C3-D4C3-40BE-810A-B4551FA9E591@oracle.com> <4DD17CB5.7010009@uw.edu> <1305575007.19725.3.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <4DD17F79.305@uw.edu> <1305575656.19725.9.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20110516202059.GC1680@fieldses.org> <20110516205351.GD1680@fieldses.org> <4DD694DF.2060302@uw.edu> <20110520172639.GA11670@fieldses.org> <1305913963.12712.6.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <4DD6C103.7090302@uw.edu> <1305920417.14253.15.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <4DD6C4A3.5010709@uw.edu> <1305922283.14253.24.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> In-Reply-To: <1305922283.14253.24.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On 05/20/11 13:11, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 12:44 -0700, Harry Edmon wrote: > >>> Once a minute is rather unusual... What kind of server are you running >>> against? >>> >>> If it is a Linux server, what is the value contained in the virtual file >>> "/proc/fs/nfsd/nfsv4leasetime" ? >>> >>> >>> >> Same as before - Debian Squeeze running 2.6.38.6. The value of >> /proc/fs/nfsd/nfsv4leasetime is 90 and is not something I changed. >> > OK... Does 'nfsstat' on the server show any 'delegreturn' updates around > the time when the state manager thread runs? It could just be that it is > reaping all your unused delegations. > > That number seems to be increasing all the time, whether or not the state manager process appears in the accounting file. And this is only the one NFS client for this sever. -- Dr. Harry Edmon E-MAIL: harry@uw.edu 206-543-0547 FAX: 206-543-0308 harry@atmos.washington.edu Director of IT, College of the Environment and Director of Computing, Dept of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640