Hi Amit,

In your lsof output, do you see any other types of open files from pvfs2-client besides "sock"? The output that you are showing is unusual. Normally everything that pvfs2-client has open will show up as IPV4, REG, CHR, or DIR.

Are you using tcp for PVFS communication?

-Phil

Kumar, Amit H. wrote:
Hi Rob,
I am using the latest version available for download (pvfs2-v2.7.1)
# netstat -tan
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address               Foreign Address             
State
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:2049                0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:677                 0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:57447               0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:199               0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8649                0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:938                 0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:111                 0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:25                0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:953                 0.0.0.0:*                   
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:51598             127.0.0.1:199               
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.237:862           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.223:878           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.221:850           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:199               127.0.0.1:51598             
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.207:675           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.235:949           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.233:677           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.227:708           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.205:1003          
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.243:991           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.213:718           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.249:1023          
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.204:814           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.232:776           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.248:896           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.240:916           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:718           172.25.24.100:2049          
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.226:950           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.224:698           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.216:751           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.250:963           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.220:1009          
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.206:995           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 172.25.24.251:2049          172.25.24.222:976           
ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0 :::80                       :::*                        
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::22                       :::*                        
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::443                      :::*                        
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::1311                     :::*                        
LISTEN
tcp        0      0 ::ffff:172.25.24.251:22     ::ffff:172.25.24.210:43811  
ESTABLISHED

Thank you,
Amit
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Ross [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:03 PM
To: Kumar, Amit H.
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Pvfs2-developers] pvfs2-cli can't identify protocol

Hi Amit,

What version of PVFS is this?

What does the output of netstat -tan look like?

Thanks,

Rob

On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Kumar, Amit H. wrote:

Hello All,
I am trying to understand the following output from "lsof".
All/most of our compute nodes (pvfs2 clients) have the following
output as reported by "lsof"
Few of the pvfs2-client nodes have greater than 1024 open sockets
for just the pvfs2-client process. Current ulimit for maximum number
of open files per process is set to 1024 on all of our computer
nodes. I see this as a potential performance problem. I was
wondering if any of you can help me interpret the output and fix any
issues that this could be causing.
<lsof output>
...............
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  121u     sock
0,5            13574284 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  122u     sock
0,5            13574285 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  123u     sock
0,5            13574286 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  124u     sock
0,5            13574287 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  125u     sock
0,5            13574288 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  126u     sock
0,5            13574289 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  127u     sock
0,5            13574290 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  128u     sock
0,5            13574291 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  129u     sock
0,5            13574292 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  130u     sock
0,5            13574303 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  131u     sock
0,5            13574304 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  132u     sock
0,5            13574326 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  133u     sock
0,5            13574327 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  134u     sock
0,5            13574328 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  135u     sock
0,5            13574329 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  136u     sock
0,5            13574330 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  137u     sock
0,5            13574331 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  138u     sock
0,5            13574332 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  139u     sock
0,5            13574333 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  140u     sock
0,5            13574334 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  141u     sock
0,5            13574336 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  142u     sock
0,5            13574337 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  143u     sock
0,5            13574338 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  144u     sock
0,5            13574344 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  145u     sock
0,5            13574345 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  146u     sock
0,5            13574346 can't identify protocol
pvfs2-cli 27278      root  147u     sock
0,5            13574357 can't identify protocol
............
</lsof output>
Thank you,
Amit



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