Re: NFS locking issues

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

nate wrote:
> it was just a couple weeks ago I was trying to help others
> on NFS and here I a asking something! doh!
>
> anyways, I noticed recently that my NFS server at home seems to
> have trouble with locking. I have 2 clients which use it to host
> home directories(1 debian woody, 1 suse 8). I first noticed it about
> a week ago when trying to load gnp (gnome notepad, my favorite X editor),
> it didn't load, it just hung.. and i was getting this in my local(client)
> kernel log:
> Aug 25 13:56:37 aphro kernel: lockd: task 173568 can't get a request slot
> Aug 25 13:57:59 aphro kernel: lockd: task 173597 can't get a request slot
> Aug 25 13:58:49 aphro kernel: lockd: task 173597 can't get a request slot
> Aug 25 13:59:39 aphro kernel: lockd: task 173597 can't get a request slot
> Aug 25 14:00:29 aphro kernel: lockd: task 173597 can't get a request slot
> Aug 25 14:01:19 aphro kernel: lockd: task 173597 can't get a request slot


A few weeks ago I installed Debian Woody on a SunBlade 100 (Sun/Sparc) 
just to see what it was like. A few days before I had to reconvert it to 
 Solaris for production use, I got it where it was mounting home 
directories via nfs (from a Solaris server). Everything worked fine for 
a few days, then when the other 35 machines in the area were imaged with 
Solaris and put on the network, but before people started logging in and 
using them, my Debian box started getting issues like what you describe. 
IIRC, it locked up the machine so I couldn't do anything but hard reset 
the box. Since I was about to convert the machine back to Solaris in a 
couple of days, I didn't try tracking it down, but thought I'd mention 
it here just in case it provides a piece to the puzzle.

Kent