> I don't seem to have a growing number of lockd's per se, but I do get
> one by the time xdm fires up and I log in, thus giving me a permanent
> minimum load average of one. I do see a change from "interruptible_
> sleep_on" to "sleep_on" in fs/lockd/clntlock.c in the recent past;
> the code looks like it's only trying to wake up every 30 * HZ
> (30 seconds?) and somehow either this is happening way too often
> (but the corresponding CPU load doesn't happen; rc5client runs as
> fast as usual) or this is a red herring...
>
> New quirk: the first time I did a "ps aux | grep lockd", I got the
> one lockd and the grep. Subsequent times (and subsequent "ps aux |
> grep grep" attempts) I get no trace of the grep process. I'm
> not sure if that's a bug, but it is weird. Something going zippier
> once it gets cached, I suppose...
Silly question: Have you tried specifying "nolock" as a mount option on
the client box?
Steve