[Gluster-users] Issues with GlusterFS 3.2.x: NFS and Transport endpoint is not connected

[James Kahn]

To reply to my own post:

After spending a huge amount of time this weekend trying to get 3.2.x NFS
stable in one way or another, I took the plunge and upgraded to 3.3.0.

After running some IO tests (iozone and dd), it has been good but the
verdict is still out depending on how it goes over the next few days. We
are back to using native gluster NFS.

Thanks,
JK.



-----Original Message-----
From: James Kahn <jkahn at idea11.com.au>
Date: Monday, 9 July 2012 11:56 AM
To: "gluster-users at gluster.org" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
Subject: [Gluster-users] Issues with GlusterFS 3.2.x: NFS and Transport
endpoint is not connected

>Hi there,
>
>We're using GlusterFS 3.2.7 currently and experiencing issue with NFS and
>GlusterFS mounts. We were on 3.2.6 and had similar issues. Our install is
>reasonably small. I'm tentative about moving to 3.3.x as we're looking for
>a stable platform, not the latest features.
>
>Our setup
>---------
>* 1 x GlusterFS server running CentOS 6.2 and GlusterFS 3.2.7
>* Using CTDB as per
>http://download.gluster.com/pub/gluster/systems-engineering/Gluster_CTDB_s
>e
>tup.v1.pdf
>* Two volumes: ctdb-lock (1 brick) and storage1 (2 bricks). ctdb-lock
>brick is very small and on ext4, storage1 bricks are 2TB XFS volumes
>* CTDB is configured as we want to load balance NFS in the future
>
>
>Essentially, there are two issues.
>
>First issue
>-----------
>GlusterFS NFS works when first initiated but performance rapidly drops and
>memory usage increases. After around 12 hours of use (and writing upwards
>of 200GB) memory usage for the GlusterFS NFS process is around 8GB. This
>is on a machine with 4GB RAM. This looks like a pretty significant memory
>leak. Restarting the GlusterFS service restores memory and performance. It
>is not resolved by itself.
>
>This is causing issues as clients writing the data slow down and the jobs
>writing them eventually fail. The initial write set runs at around 850Mbps
>(over gigabit) and slows down to around 30Mbps over time.
>
>Second issue
>------------
>In an attempt to work around the first issue we disabled GlusterFS NFS on
>the volumes (nfs.register-with-portmap: off and nfs.disable: on), mounted
>the volumes locally on the GlusterFS server and re-exported with native
>NFS on the CentOS server.
>
>After a certain amount of time or data is written the NFS writes start to
>fail. On investigating, it appears that this is due to the GlusterFS mount
>on the server failing - after remounting GlusterFS it continues to work.
>However, this GlusterFS volume is mounted twice, on /storage1 and
>/gluster/storage1, and only one of the mount points failed.
>
>/etc/fstab snippet:
>localhost:/ctdb-lock	/gluster/ctdb-lock	glusterfs	rw,_netdev	0 0
>localhost:/storage1	/gluster/storage1	glusterfs	rw,_netdev	0 0
>localhost:/storage1	/storage1		glusterfs	rw,_netdev	0 0
>
>
>/etc/exports:
>/storage1	*(rw,fsid=1,sync,no_root_squash,mp=/storage1)
>
>
>Error:
>[root at HOST /]# cd storage1
>-bash: cd: storage1: Transport endpoint is not connected
>
>
>What am I doing wrong, or what can I do to work around this issue? We need
>reliable NFS and Gluster isn't giving it to us right now.
>
>Thanks,
>JK.
>
>
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