On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 02:30:56PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:54:59PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > I have a NFS server that exhibit a high load (20-30) when supporting > > about 30 clients, while there is no apparent bottleneck: low disck > > activity, CPU idle most of the time, plenty of available RAM. > > > > Of course service is crapy, with many timouts. Any hint of what can be > > going on? > > I found the bottleneck. ps does not show it because it happens within > the differen threads of nfsd. DDB tells me that almost all nfsd threads > are waiting on tstile with this backtrace: > > turnstile_block > rw_vector_enter > genfs_lock > VOP_LOCK > vn_lock > vget > ufs_ihashget > ffs_vget > ufs_fhtovp > VFS_FHTOVP > nfsrv_fhtovp > nfsrv_write > nfssvc_nfsd > sys_nfssvc
What version of NetBSD is this? Does the local file-system on the NetBSD NFS servers use WAPBL? Kind regards -- Matthias Scheler http://zhadum.org.uk/