On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 22:42 +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > I'm seeing a regression with current kernel git head when using NFS-mounts. > Architecture in my case is parisc, although I don't think that this is > relevant. > At least kernel 3.10 (and I think 3.11) didn't showed that problem. > > The symtom is, that "top" shows high usage of either kswapd0 or kswapd1. > Here is an output with kswapd1: > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 37 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 91.8 0.0 63:00.40 kswapd1 > 28448 root 20 0 3252 1428 1060 R 15.3 0.0 0:00.09 top > 1 root 20 0 2784 988 852 S 0.0 0.0 0:09.95 init > > This is what ps shows: > lsXXXX:~# ps -ef | grep mount > root 1181 1 0 14:51 ? 00:00:18 /usr/sbin/automount > --pid-file /var/run/autofs.pid > root 25331 1181 0 21:25 ? 00:00:00 /bin/mount -n -t nfs -s -o > nolock,rw,hard,intr homes:/unixhome1 /net/home1 > root 25332 25331 0 21:25 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mount.nfs > homes:/unixhome1 /net/home1 -s -n -o rw,nolock,hard,intr > > And using sysrq to show the blocked tasks I get in syslog: > SysRq : Show Blocked State > mount.nfs D 00000000401040c0 0 25332 25331 0x00000010 > Backtrace: > [<0000000040113a68>] __schedule+0x500/0x810 > > I know it's not a problem of the NFS server, since the same mount is still ok > on other machines. > The NFS directory was already mounted and in use when this mount happened > again (called by cron-job). > > Any ideas?
If the NFS directory is already mounted, then why is the automounter trying to mount it a second time? -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp trond.mykleb...@netapp.com www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/