Hello Darren, Friday, June 16, 2006, 3:26:06 PM, you wrote:
DJM> What a blast from the past this is! Thats my error message, so DJM> sorry for it not being helpful. DJM> We assumed it wouldn't get hit my many people and that it would DJM> be quite a while before it was, looks like that time has come :-) DJM> Did increasing the size of the dupreq cache help avoid the problem ? I did increased it upto 8192 value (both cotsmaxdupreqs and maxdupreqs) on the live system via mdb (I know it could mean some performance hit). So far so good but I guess we have to wait another few days to be sure. DJM> Out of interest, how many clients, filesystems are involved DJM> here? This probably was initially found on a system with about DJM> 15TB of data spread out over about 1500 file systems, it was a DJM> 10CPU E10k that just did NFS (assuming I remember it correctly). DJM> ~50 filesystems on this server with about 40TB data, about ~15 clients. About 1500-2200 active nfsd threads on nfs server. Also noticed it on other servers. What I noticed (and you in a crashdump from me) that system could be literally overflown with these messages - sometimes syslogd has problems to recover and is eating lot of memory (few hundred MBs). -- Best regards, Robert mailto:rmilkowski at task.gda.pl http://milek.blogspot.com