[Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable or not?

[James Kahn]

Try 3.3.0 - 3.2.6 has issues with NFS in general (memory leaks, etc).




-----Original Message-----
From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>
Date: Thursday, 12 July 2012 5:56 PM
To: Gluster General Discussion List <gluster-users at gluster.org>
Subject: [Gluster-users] NFS mounts with glusterd on localhost - reliable
or	not?

>Hi,
>
>are NFS mounts made on a single server (i.e. where glusterd is running)
>supposed to be stable (with gluster 3.2.6)?
>
>
>I'm using the following line in /etc/fstab:
>
>
>localhost:/sites /var/ftp/sites nfs _netdev,mountproto=tcp,nfsvers=3,bg 0
>0
>
>
>The problem is, after some time (~1-6 hours), I'm no longer able to
>access this mount.
>
>dmesg says:
>
>[49609.832274] nfs: server localhost not responding, still trying
>[49910.639351] nfs: server localhost not responding, still trying
>[50211.446433] nfs: server localhost not responding, still trying
>
>
>What's worse, whenever this happens, *all* other servers in the cluster
>(it's a 10-server distributed volume) will destabilise - their load
>average will grow, and eventually their gluster mount becomes
>unresponsive, too (other servers use normal gluster mounts).
>
>At this point, I have to kill all gluster processes, start glusterd
>again, mount (on servers using gluster mount).
>
>
>Is it expected behaviour with gluster and NFS mounts on localhost? Can
>it be caused by some kind of deadlock? Any workarounds?
>
>
>
>-- 
>Tomasz Chmielewski
>http://www.ptraveler.com
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