[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2014-07-08 Thread masakre
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 Is this bug solved?? I am having similar issues with my Ubuntu server 12.04.04 64 bits. I am using ldap authentication with NFS to mount users home. The server uses 2 gigabyte ethernet using bonding and there

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2013-06-01 Thread Thomas Anantharaman
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 I have been struggling with the same problem for the last few months, and accidentally stumbled on a fix that seems to work : 1. On clients set rsize=8192,wsize=8192 in /etc/fstab I suspect that when

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2013-04-24 Thread Kari Haapanen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 Without changing anything anywhere, the nightmare begun again. Locks up as long as for ten minutes. Even sometimes nautilus claiming all bytes were transferred it locks up anyway. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2013-04-17 Thread Kari Haapanen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 Ok, this is my workaround. I got it working by mounting from the client's fstab with these options: rw,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 Are the sizes optimal for performance, i have not tested, but seems pretty ok.

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2013-04-16 Thread Kari Haapanen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 I have a 32bit Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS as an nfs server, which has been working ever since with Mint 13 64bit client among many others. I haven't changed anything on it, but normal updates. Now I installed a

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2013-03-11 Thread Benjamin Rampe
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 +1 * clean install of 12.04 server. * LDAP AUTH_SYS * a single nfs client has no noticable problems, as soon as a second client starts both clients generate high CPU loads on their side ( 90%, Core 2 Duo)

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2013-02-15 Thread David Abdurachmanov
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 I have noticed the same issue running Ubuntu 12.10 as NFSv4 server. The load averages on two core machine are 2.0, while CPU utilization is almost at 0%. It's extremely slow comparing to Fedora based NFS

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2013-02-03 Thread Marcelo Salhab Brogliato
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 I'm having the same issues: high CPU and slowness. Going back to nfs3 just solved to me while I'm waiting for an update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-11-09 Thread Karsten Suehring
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 +1 updated from 10.10 to 12.04 with more than 70 clients. nfsd starts to consume loads of CPU when clients start to access files -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-11-09 Thread Karsten Suehring
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 It seems that issue is easy to reproduce: I just did it using just two VirtualBox VMs wit the following steps: 1. Install Ubuntu 12.04.1 Server x64 with default settings (also default settings of Virtual

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-11-09 Thread Karsten Suehring
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 Another note: I also upgraded one of my 12.04.1 servers to 12.10 (do- release-upgrade). The issue was not resolved by the new release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-09-26 Thread ECOM Development
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 We also see this problem in our network. Our setup with NO problems: SERVER1 NFS server running Ubuntu 11.10 (Kernel 3.0.0-12-server) (2 x Quadcore Xeon 2.4GHz 16GB Ram) SERVER2 Webserver running Ubuntu

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-09-03 Thread juuso puuso
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 I see the exact same thing as perpetualrabbit: client(s) experience nfs lockup for several tens of seconds - of the server side ~5 nfs threads killing the cpu. This began on upgrading a client from 10.04 LTS

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-19 Thread Jeff Ebert
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879334 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879334 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 879334 nfsd from nfs-kernel-server very slow and system load from 25%-100% from nfsd -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-18 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: nfs-utils (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title:

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-18 Thread Jeff Ebert
I am experiencing the same behavior in a small network with 1 Gb ethernet connection between client and server. Large files can be moved over Samba quickly. The same files over NFSv4 move very slow and pause for long periods of time. I also see the high load due to nfsd threads. This problem

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-18 Thread Jeff Ebert
'top' listing on server with single NFS client trying to copy a single file. top - 00:01:50 up 22 min, 1 user, load average: 0.73, 0.50, 0.51 Tasks: 151 total, 4 running, 147 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.9%us, 39.8%sy, 0.0%ni, 58.2%id, 0.0%wa, 1.1%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem:

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-18 Thread Jeff Taylor
I have been having a similar problem since upgrading my NFS server from natty to oneiric two weeks ago. When copying files over an nfs share to another oneiric machine, my transfers run smooth and quick. However when transferring files to any machine with an older distribution (I have one on

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-18 Thread Jeff Taylor
I attempted to change my I/O scheduler on the server to deadline as in post #29 above. I even added elevator=deadline to grub and rebooted, then confirmed the shared drives were indeed defaulted to deadline, however there has been no noticeable change in the response. -- You received this bug

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-10 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
After running several days now with the deadline scheduler I can say that the responsiveness of the system is ok now. The throughput still needs improvement. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-08 Thread perpetualrabbit
@Christoph Bartoschek Any load over the number of cpu cores (X) is not acceptable. You have X camels. Each camel can carry one sack of flour. If you want to move more than X sacks of flour, some camels will have to make second trips. That is how `load´ works, right? Any load over X will make

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-08 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
@perpetualrabbit On an IO bound system high load is normally not a problem. The processes normally wait for IO and still count for load. Thus if the hardware is capable of performing 100 IO operations in parallel a load of 100 is not bad even if there is only one cpu. These are only NFS

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-07 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
I also see that 12.04 uses cfq as I/O scheduler. 10.04 used deadline. After switching the I/O scheduler to deadline the load quickly went down from about 100 to 10. I have to measure whether the performance is acceptable now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
I also see that the load goes up when it becomes really slow. I have 128 nfsd threads and 8 cores. The load is currently at 100. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread perpetualrabbit
@christoph With resources I mean: Our virtual nfs server was assigned 4 virtual cpu's, 8GB ram and about 8Gbit/s network, depending on how much the other virtual guests are using the network. And yours? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
Our servers have 2x4 cores, 48 GiB RAM and 1 Gbit Ethenet each. They are directly connected via 10 Gbit Ethernet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 causes enormous

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread Joseph Salisbury
This issue also appears to be an upstream bug, since you tested the latest upstream kernel. Would it be possible for you to open an upstream bug report at bugzilla.kernel.org [1]? That will allow the upstream Developers to examine the issue, and may provide a quicker resolution to the bug. If

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Adding in the nfs-utils package for review by the server team. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable To manage

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
I see the following suspicious result: root@d1106i06:~# ps auxwww | grep migr root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?SJun01 0:00 [migration/0] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?SJun01 0:00 [migration/1] root13 89.8 0.0 0 0 ?SJun01

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-05 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
We see a similar problem. We have a RAID DRBD LVM EXT4 NFS configuration that worked fine with Ubuntu 10.04. After upgrading to 12.04 LTS the performance dropped significantly. The clients block often, editing files is a pain and so on. We consider going back to Ubuntu 10.04. -- You

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-05 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
I forgot to mention that we see the probelms with NFS and NFS4. It does not matter which version we use. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 causes enormous load in

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-05 Thread perpetualrabbit
@Christoph: Can you tell me more about your situation: - How many clients? - What is mounted and how? - What kind of authentication (ldap, kerberos, AD, passwd/shadow,...)? - Real nfs server or virtual? - What resources (memory, # cpu's, network bandwidth, etc)? What did you try to diagnose and

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-05 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
- How many clients? About 20 - What is mounted and how? The home directories of the users via automount. We use default mount options but nail it to nfs 3. - What kind of authentication (ldap, kerberos, AD, passwd/shadow,...)? NIS - Real nfs server or virtual? Real - What resources

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-03 Thread perpetualrabbit
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable To

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-31 Thread perpetualrabbit
All right, I am doing tests right now, but as far as I can see the 3.4.0-030400-generic kernel has the same behaviour as stock ubuntu 12.04. With ubuntu server and this 3.4 kernel: Test: - all workstation writing a separate 4GB file with `dd´ to /testhome, which is nfs4 mounted from an

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread Brad Figg
** Package changed: linux-meta (Ubuntu) = linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable To manage

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
I forgot the `top´ example roland@asselijn:~$ cat top_example top - 16:08:57 up 13 days, 5:13, 3 users, load average: 7.82, 5.95, 5.28 Tasks: 290 total, 5 running, 285 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 30.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 69.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 :

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
As this is a server system, there is no firefox or X window system on it. Apport-collect starts a text-mode browser and in that I could authorize the collecting of logs, it seems. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed ** Tags added: apport-collected **

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.4kernel[1] (Not a kernel in the daily directory). Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag(Only that

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-05-30 Thread perpetualrabbit
You realize this server has been decommissioned, right? I can no longer do real life test on it. What I can do is give it a disk (well virtual disk, it's iscsi) and export that to all workstations and test with that. Just what I that in pre-production testing. I now know I have to watch out for