From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 21:14:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98FA816A4CF for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:14:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pimout2-ext.prodigy.net (pimout2-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D86643D48 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:14:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from maul.immure.com (adsl-66-136-206-1.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [66.136.206.1])i7RLDnK6107146; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:13:55 -0400 Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7RLDlSd035355; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:13:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7RLDl0o007140; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:13:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7RLDlMU007139; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:13:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:13:47 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: Claus Guttesen Message-ID: <20040827211347.GD183@luke.immure.com> References: <20040827183518.GB183@luke.immure.com> <20040827210014.30670.qmail@web14105.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040827210014.30670.qmail@web14105.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-immure-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-immure-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: bob@immure.com cc: current list Subject: Re: nfsd slows with age X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bob Willcox List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 21:14:16 -0000 On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:00:14PM +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > I have noticed that on my NFS file server system the > > nfsd process > > gradually starts using more and more CPU time ... > > Stopping and restarting nfsd seems to fix things > back to > > normal. > > > > Has anyone else seen this behavior? > > I'm running a nfs-server with current as of Feb. 18'th > 2004, serving approx. 5 TB for some web-servers. It's > also acting as a rsync- and syslog-server. The > cpu-usage hardly goes above 10 % while doing nfs, > except when doing internal copying or rsyncing. > Longest uptime was 118 days before I took it down to > add more disks. Works _very_ solid (knock-knock) I > must say. > > Are you using tcp or udp? I'm using udp. My (rather few) clients use amd to automount stuff (home dirs, etc.). The server system it'self is really lightly loaded as it's for my home network with usually only me accessing it (via nfs to my home directory from my workstation). I don't know if the slowdown is related to activity or not, guess I could run some tests to try to determine this. Thanks, Bob > > Claus > > > Yahoo! Mail (http://dk.mail.yahoo.com) - Gratis: 6 MB lagerplads, spamfilter og virusscan -- Bob Willcox Acquaintance, n.: bob@immure.com A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, Austin, TX but not well enough to lend to. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"