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I/O Errors with hard mounts

NFS Ricardo Labiaga 1 participant 1 message Jun 6, 2008

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You have a=A0significant number of dropped connections, as indicated by=
the high EAGAIN count.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 2.6.16 kernel isn't handling the reconne= ction correctly and propagating
EIO to the application.=A0 There's=A0been a fair amount of client side = work in the RPC=A0reconnection=20
code=A0recently .=A0 Can you try with a recent kernel?
A network trace and rpcdebug output would be invaluable when you're abl= e to reproduce this.
- ricardo
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Ricardo Labiaga <[email protected]> wro= te:

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Does /var/log/messages show any errors around the same time?=A0=20 In addition to the network trace and rpcdebug on the client, take a =

look at "nfsstat -d" on the filer.=20

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=A0Is the filer dropping the connection?=A0 Look for "dropped with EA=

GAIN" or "dropped from vol offline"=20

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in the output.=A0 This will help narrow down the problem.

So, sometimes when somebody deletes a lot of data (like the problem w=

e

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just observed),
the deleting host, and often other hosts, do report=A0 'filer not responding' in the logs.
However, operations that aren't happening in the delete dir, tend to work just fine (for example, iozone could be running and doing pretty well)).=A0 Further, the most recent time this happened, the host didn=

't

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report filer not responding.

This is the only EAGAN reference I see:

assist queue (queued, split mbufs, drop for EAGAIN) =3D (0, 64478612,=

94340)

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Dave

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