From: Subject: RE: 'random' diskless clients hangs Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 20:46:04 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <200309032103.28611.bernd-schubert@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19vLbZ-00053U-00 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:46:45 -0700 Received: from smtp2.mail.be.easynet.net ([212.100.160.76]) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 19vLbY-00035i-It for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:46:44 -0700 Received: from 212-100-181-22.adsl.easynet.be ([212.100.181.22] helo=SHEPHERD) by smtp2.mail.be.easynet.net with smtp (Exim 4.22) id 19vLbW-0000Ak-H4 for nfs@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:46:42 +0200 To: In-Reply-To: <200309032103.28611.bernd-schubert@web.de> Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: The clients still hang every few hours. There is nothing in the logs. When we change the rsize and wsize to 2048, the cleint no longer crash but clients and server because extremely slow. Please help! We are willing to pay a fee, by the way, if someone is interested in take a good hard look at our problem. This is our setup: SERVER: ======= Linux Red Hat 7.3 kernel 2.4.18-27.7.x nfs-utils-1.0.5-1 netboot settings: label linux kernel vmlinuz ipappend 1 append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.112:/clients/%s/root,v3,nolock,intr,rsize=4096,wsize=4096 exports: /clients/blue/root 192.168.1.160/255.255.255.255(rw,no_root_squash,sync) CLIENTS: ======== Linux Red Hat 7.3 kernel 2.4.20-18.7custom nfs-utils-1.0.5-1 fstab: 192.168.1.112:/clients/blue/root / nfs rw,nfsvers=3,hard,intr,udp,nolock 0 0 -----Original Message----- From: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Bernd Schubert Sent: woensdag 3 september 2003 21:03 To: nfsmailinglist@heessels.com; nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [NFS] 'random' diskless clients hangs On Wednesday 03 September 2003 11:33, nfsmailinglist@heessels.com wrote: > Hello, > > We have a setup with a NFS V3 Fileserver and diskless clients all running > Red Hat 7.3. > > All clients run fine for days at a time, but every now and then a client > hangs. Most of the time the process that is porbably causing the hang is > either rhn_check (from Red Hat Network) or httpsd with user psaadm (from > Plesk 6.0.1). > > Since we are new to NFS we're not sure how to track down this problem. Any > help would be VERY much appreciated! > Hello, we are also using diskless clients but have never seen something like this, though none of your hanging programs is running on your systems. Is there anything in the logs? Which kernel-versions are you using? If you are using redhat kernel you should try a vanilla kernel (2.4.21 *NOT* 2.4.22). Btw, how is your diskless setup working? Perhaps there's something wrong? Regards, Bernd ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs