Why is my load ave so high now? [Now I know why!]
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Jul 28 01:56:36 UTC 2009
On 07/27/2009 02:26 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> You see a bunch of NFS-related things in a "D" state and you wonder why
> it's slow?
Yes. Mostly because the machine accessing the NFS mounts has been
re-booted a couple of times.
> If you have processes in an I/O wait (a.k.a. "D") state, that'll bog
> stuff down badly...especially if the NFS mounts are mounted "hard".
Well, tonight I rebooted the server with NFS turned off. When it
booted, I saw a load average between 1 and 2. That's all. When it
re-booted, ivtv started back up, despite my blacklisting it and removing
it from modprobe.conf. However, ivtvfb did not get installed.
I also noticed that BOINC started right up again. With astropulse
grabbing all the idle cpu time, my load average was still between 1 and 2.
So, I decided that NFS was my problem, but I'm still not sure why.
So, I tried a couple of things. My laptop references a few directories
on my server via NFS and autofs.
So, I started nfs again on the server (service nfs start)
Load average remains between 1 and 2. So far so good.
>From the laptop, I did a "cd /net/kjc386". I can then do an ls and see
all of the exported filesystems. Continues to look good.
"ls home" lists the directories in the server's exported /home dir.
nfs does the work, and disappears from the top -i that I have running.
Great.
Next I do a "ls c:" to look at the old WINDOWS partition on my server.
HANG! I can't interrupt the ls with ^C nor ^Z. I have to kill it from
another process. When I do, the hung nfs processes on the server stay
hung. After it collects all 8 allowed nfs processes, nothing more nfs
works to the server, and the load average climbs roughly 1 per nfs
process (I watched the load average increase with each new nfs process
that appeared).
So, I guess my question is what's broken with NFS between my F11 laptop
and the F10 server????
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
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