On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:09 +0100, Claude Frantz wrote: > Hello ! > > Please allow me to submit to you a question related to a system which > is a NFS v3 client for a Netapp server. The home directories are > NFS attached. The following behaviour occurs sometimes. The system > becomes very slow. The load average is increasing but the most > interesting observation is the increase of the %iowait. After > reboot the system is running well for many days, then the problem > occurs again. > > Any idea ?
Hi, Have you tried analysing the NFS performances using Chuck's nfs-iostat utility? You can pick up a copy at http://oss.oracle.com/~cel/linux-2.6/2.6.24/ Try looking both at nfs-iostat 10 --page and nfs-iostat 10 --attr to see what the differences are between the 'fast' and 'slow' cases... Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/