From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Debian Bug#235886: nfs-kernel-server inducing load of 8-9 with no good reason for Linux 2.6 clients
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 09:48:08 +0100
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To: Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 04:09:43PM -0500, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> Neil (or someone), what should I tell this user?

They should enable NFS and RPC debugging on the client when this problem
occurs, put the bzipped logs somewhere and send a pointer to this list.

To turn on debugging, do this

	echo 65535 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug
	echo 65535 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/rpc_debug

If something in the RPC client is going berserk this logs will probably
grow like crazy. It may be helpful to kill syslog and 
"cat /proc/kmsg > /tmp/nfs.log" directly. Or even use "head -10000"
instead of cat.

Olaf
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