NFS problems between RHEL4 U3 and RHEL4U6

[jerry.feldman at algorithmics.com]

I've made a bit of progress on this. 
On one o the client machines I am currently not experiencing the delay.
But my test on another client I experienced a delay on my home directory
but not in another directory (buildarea/foo) both exported by the same
NFS server> There is a difference in the export options:
/home                    *(rw,insecure,sync)

/mnts/buildarea          *(rw,sync)

Additionally, /home is mounted by fstab on the clients where the
buildarea subdirectories automounted on the clients. I did remove the
insecure locking from the /home entry, restarted ns and remounted /home
on the clients, but there is no change. 

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Jerry Feldman <Jerry.Feldman at algorithmics.com>
Algorithmics (US), Inc
Suite 2-400
275 Grove St.
Newton, MA 02466
617-663-5220
617-663-5391 (fax) 


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> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:57 AM
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> Subject: NFS problems between RHEL4 U3 and RHEL4U6
> 
> My primary NFS server is running RHEL4 Update3 (unpatched). I just
added
> a few servers running U6. (The specific release I run is specified by
> our IT department). The problem I am seeing is:
> When I save an 8MB file from our application on a client RHEL4U3
machine
> the save time is about 1 second. When I perform the same test on a
> client running RHEL4U6, the save takes about 2 minutes.
> 
> As a test, I exported a directory from one of the RHELU6 systems, and
> the save times were good on both an update 3 and update 6 client. So,
> one solution is to upgrade U3 to U6. (I would probably do a fresh
> install). But, that requires some downtime, and the server room is not
> accessible after hours. (All disks are removable so I probably could
> move the volume group to one of the existing servers to minimize
> downtime).
> 
> I would like to know if there is some existing NFS issue between U3
and
> U6. If I could provide a temporary fix, that would be a better interim
> solution until the additional drives I ordered arrive.
> 
> --
> Jerry Feldman <Jerry.Feldman at algorithmics.com>
> Algorithmics (US), Inc
> Suite 2-400
> 275 Grove St.
> Newton, MA 02466
> 617-663-5220
> 617-663-5391 (fax)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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