[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-10 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
After running several days now with the deadline scheduler I can say that the responsiveness of the system is ok now. The throughput still needs improvement. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-08 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
@perpetualrabbit On an IO bound system high load is normally not a problem. The processes normally wait for IO and still count for load. Thus if the hardware is capable of performing 100 IO operations in parallel a load of 100 is not bad even if there is only one cpu. These are only NFS servers.

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-07 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
I also see that 12.04 uses cfq as I/O scheduler. 10.04 used deadline. After switching the I/O scheduler to deadline the load quickly went down from about 100 to 10. I have to measure whether the performance is acceptable now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
I see the following suspicious result: root@d1106i06:~# ps auxwww | grep migr root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?SJun01 0:00 [migration/0] root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?SJun01 0:00 [migration/1] root13 89.8 0.0 0 0 ?SJun01 7000

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
Our servers have 2x4 cores, 48 GiB RAM and 1 Gbit Ethenet each. They are directly connected via 10 Gbit Ethernet. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 causes enormous lo

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-06 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
I also see that the load goes up when it becomes really slow. I have 128 nfsd threads and 8 cores. The load is currently at 100. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 cau

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-05 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
- How many clients? About 20 - What is mounted and how? The home directories of the users via automount. We use default mount options but nail it to nfs 3. - What kind of authentication (ldap, kerberos, AD, passwd/shadow,...)? NIS - Real nfs server or virtual? Real - What resources (memory

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-05 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
I forgot to mention that we see the probelms with NFS and NFS4. It does not matter which version we use. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006446 Title: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubu

[Bug 1006446] Re: nfs4 causes enormous load in ubuntu-server making it unusable

2012-06-05 Thread Christoph Bartoschek
We see a similar problem. We have a RAID < DRBD < LVM < EXT4 < NFS configuration that worked fine with Ubuntu 10.04. After upgrading to 12.04 LTS the performance dropped significantly. The clients block often, editing files is a pain and so on. We consider going back to Ubuntu 10.04. -- You rece