nfs client performance

[Judd Pickell]

Have you tried something like snort to see what kind and how much traffic
you are getting to your system? Domino data directories I am sure would
receive a lot of traffic. Also, I would recommend going back to rhel3 if you
are sure there were no issues. Or look at what version you were using on the
old one and see if there are fixes that present the issue you are seeing.
Maybe it is now accurately recording the usage? :)

Sincerely,
Judd Pickell

On 3/23/07, David <daz at damnetwork.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Craig White wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:36 -0700, David wrote:
> >> I'm in need of some help.  I have a rhel4 server mounting an nfs share
> on
> >> a NetApp filer that is having some serious performance issues.  Not
> being
> >> overly familiar with troublshooting nfs, I'm at a wall.  Here are the
> >> details:
> >>
> >> Previous server:
> >> Dell 2650, rhel3, kernel 2.4.something
> >> - no issues
> >>
> >> Current server:
> >> Dell 2850, rhel4, kernel 2.6.9
> >> - gig network, e1000 module
> >> - rpciod cpu usage is very high.
> >>
> >> here are my nfs mount options:
> >> filer:/vol/exportvol /local/dir    nfs
> >> tcp,noatime,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,nfsvers=3,hard,intr 0 0
> > ----
> > You don't give us enough details to do anything much more than guess but
> > I am curious what is meant by rpciod cpu usage is very high thinking
> > that it might have something to do with this issue.
> >
> > I don't often detail things such as noatime, rsize, wsize, hard (in
> > fact, I haven't used hard nfs mounts as I seemed to recall some hanging
> > issues.
>
> Some more info (sorry its been awhile.  Y2k2DST seemed to get in the way.
>
> When I mean high cpu usage, while running top (sorted for cpu usage),
> rpciod is often the top process.  Its not uncommon to see it hit > 50% cpu
> usage for many minutes at a time.
>
> some other things I've noticed:
>
> When rpciod hits to over 30% cpu usage for more than a few seconds, the
> servers context switches go from over 15k to around 6k.  Also, the number
> of processes waiting for cpu time increases, although it doesnt get above
> single digits.
>
> That info is from watching top and 'vmstat 2'  at the same time.
> The server in question is our Lotus Domino 7 server.  The nfs mounts are
> the domino server's data directories.
>
> Any other comments/questions?
>
> Thanks again,
> David
>
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >
>
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