[Gluster-users] NFS to Gluster Hangs

[Niels de Vos]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:32:50AM -0400, Gene Liverman wrote:
> Twice now I have had my nfs connection to a replicated gluster volume stop
> responding. On both servers that connect to the system I have the following
> symptoms:
> 
>    1. Accessing the mount with the native client is still working fine (the
>    volume is mounted both that way and via nfs. One app requires the nfs
>    version)
>    2. The logs have messages stating the following: "kernel: nfs: server
>    my-servers-name not responding, still trying"
> 
> How can I fix this?

You should check if the NFS-server (a glusterfs process) is still 
running:

    # gluster volume status

If the NFS-server is not running anymore, you can start it with:

    # gluster volume start $VOLUME force
    (you only need to do that for one volume)


In case this is with GlusterFS 3.5, you may be hitting a memory leak in 
the DRC (Duplicate Request Cache) implementation of the NFS-server. You 
can disable DRC with this:

    # gluster volume set $VOLUME nfs.drc off

In glusterfs-3.5.1 DRC will be disabled by default, there have been too 
many issues with DRC to enable it for everyone. We need to do more tests 
and fix DRC in the current development (master) branch.

HTH,
Niels