Re: 2.4.19+trond and diskless locking problems

From: Christian Reis (kiko@async.com.br)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 12:08:28 EST


On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 02:14:50AM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br> writes:
>
> > a) ps ax | grep lockd returns:
>
> > 94 ? DW 0:00 [lockd]
>
> > Why would lockd be in state "D"? Looks bad. Can this happen
> > in normal usage? It kicks the loadavg up 1 point.
> <snip>
> > [ 10-second delay here ]
>
> > 09:24:18.988289 violinux.async.com.br.793 >
> > anthem.async.com.br.sometimes-rpc4: udp 180 (DF)
>
> > [ 11-second delay here ]
>
> OK, so you are sending out the RPC request to the server's NLM daemon,
> which is clearly receiving the packet (since tcpdump was able to log
> it), but is never sending a reply. Are you seeing any kernel messages
> in the syslog?

Hmmm. Ran into this again this morning and right now when starting up
one of the boxes. A reboot of the workstation fixed it for the while.

What can I do to help further debug the issue? Try another kernel
version on clients? Server? This is giving me a headache.. :-/

Take care,

--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331 | NMFL
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