On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:04:57PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote: > Hi, > > I am an admin for a network of 100+ machines which have nfs automounted > /home. > > We have recently been working to identify bottlenecks in our nfs server, > and it was discovered that our nfs server was sustaining a rate of > 10,000 ACCESS operations per second, and almost 4,000 GETATTR > operations. > > We recently upgraded to gamin 0.1.6 to make use of mandatory_gaminrc > (we used "fsset nfs none").
first try to upgrade to the latest release (01.7) > However, some of our hosts are still flooding the nfs server with ACCESS > and GETATTR's, at rates of over 400 ops per second for the worst > offenders. Running 'pkill gam_server' in a while loop drops that number > to less than 10 per second, so it's pretty clear gam_server is the > culprit. > > Is there something else I need to do to prevent gam_server from watching > nfs mounted files? Hard to tell, this sounds like a bug, yes but I have never tried "fsset nfs none" myself. Debugging the gam_server to see why and where it still accesses the NFS volume sounds the best way to fix this: http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/debug.html Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ Gamin-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
