2003-09-02 18:32:47

by Richard Ems

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Subject: cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports hangs

Hi all!

This is a dual Athlon system with SuSE 8.2.
Kernel is SuSE's k_smp-2.4.21-4.

After 32 days of uptime nfs exports stopped working.
While trying to restart the nfs server them I found that running
"rcnfsserver restart" hangs on exportfs (process ind D state)

Also a simple "cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports" hangs (process in D state).

The last lines from "strace cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports" show:

munmap(0x40016000, 59621) = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=32058672, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40158000
close(3) = 0
brk(0) = 0x804c68c
brk(0x804d68c) = 0x804d68c
brk(0) = 0x804d68c
brk(0x804e000) = 0x804e000
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0
open("/proc/fs/nfs/exports", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(3, <unfinished ...>

Here the process hangs.

What's happening? The nfs server was running for 32 days and suddenly this!

Thanks, Richard


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2003-09-04 02:46:58

by Martin Pool

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Subject: Re: cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports hangs

On 2 Sep 2003 Richard Ems <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> This is a dual Athlon system with SuSE 8.2.
> Kernel is SuSE's k_smp-2.4.21-4.
>
> After 32 days of uptime nfs exports stopped working.
> While trying to restart the nfs server them I found that running
> "rcnfsserver restart" hangs on exportfs (process ind D state)
>
> Also a simple "cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports" hangs (process in D state).
>
> The last lines from "strace cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports" show:
>
> munmap(0x40016000, 59621) = 0
> open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=32058672, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 2097152, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40158000
> close(3) = 0
> brk(0) = 0x804c68c
> brk(0x804d68c) = 0x804d68c
> brk(0) = 0x804d68c
> brk(0x804e000) = 0x804e000
> fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 2), ...}) = 0
> open("/proc/fs/nfs/exports", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> read(3, <unfinished ...>

I don't know the answer, but you can get some more potentially
interesting information by looking at the wait channel of cat and of
other relevant processes.

# ps axo pid,cmd,wchan

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Martin


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