[K12OSN] NFS help

[Shawn Powers]

Oh, the NFS server is running FC3 with absurdly fast drives, and  
serving NFS from 2 separate gig ethernet ports on 2 different network  
segments.  The problems occur on both ports, regardless of the  
traffic on them, so I know it's not a bandwidth issue.

-Shawn

On Jan 3, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Shawn Powers wrote:

> I've been using NFS for years, and it's been great.  Our recent  
> increase in clients (both thin and other) has caused, problems...
>
> I think I'm running out of file locks, or having too many open  
> files, or too many threads (yeah, I'm completely guessing what I'm  
> running out of), or something.
>
> Could someone point me in the right direction to diagnose, and  
> hopefully fix NFS?
>
> The symptoms are:
>
> 1) Programs on thin clients for users with NFS home directories  
> don't open, they just sorta hang and hang.  Sometimes they'll start  
> after 10 minutes.
>
> 2) double clicking a file in nautilus will sometimes open the file  
> (in openoffice), but then nautilus will hang.
>
> 3) on my OSX clients, Microsoft Word complains that either a file  
> is locked, or it can't lock a file -- both errors are common.
>
> If I try to:
>
> service nfs restart
>
> the part that says, "Shutting down NFS daemon:     FAILED" always  
> comes up, but then further down it says, "Starting NFS daemon:     
> SUCCESS"
>
> I can't find any useful errors, but rebooting the NFS server does  
> fix the problem for a while.  It first, of course, locks up every  
> client unless they've logged out, so it's not a great solution, and  
> was not a great way to start the year. :)
>
> Thanks for any insight,
> -Shawn
>
>
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Shawn Powers
Technology Director
Inland Lakes Schools
PHN: 231-238-6868 x9174
FAX: 509-356-7024
spowers at inlandlakes.org
Work Website: http://techcorner.inlandlakes.org
Personal Blog: http://www.brainofshawn.com

--<Disclaimer, now required for frustrating reasons>--
The views, opinions, visions, thoughts, comments,
sarcastic whims, forecasts, poetic outbursts,
cynical wit, future plans, implementation ideas,
OS preference, curricular insight, ice cream preference,
or anything else I might infer are not the
views of Inland Lakes Schools.  Pretty much everything
I say, do, think, or imply with punctuation should be
considered my own delusions, and ignored completely.





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