Hi Jon,

On Thursday 04 February 2010 17:50:25 Jon Forrest wrote:
> I have a new cluster running CentOS 5.3.
> The cluster uses a Sun 7310 storage server
> that provides NFS service over a private
> 1Gb/s ethernet with 9K jumbo frames to the
> cluster.
> 
> We've noticed that a number of the compute
> nodes sometimes generate the
> 
> automount[15023]: umount_autofs_indirect: ask umount returned busy /home
> 
> message. When this happens the program running on the
> node dies. This has happened between 10 and 20 times.
> We're not sure what's going on on a node when this
> happens. Most of the time everything is fine and
> the home directories are automounted without problem.

Have you ramped up the number of NFS daemons, backlog stuff etc on the solaris 
box (/etc/default/nfs) and is the Solaris NIC running with jumbo frames as 
well (and the switch is *really* capable of doing it (please test with ping).

Cheers

Carsten

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