From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261535AbTJIKd7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 06:33:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261695AbTJIKd7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 06:33:59 -0400 Received: from vwisb7.vkw.tu-dresden.de ([141.30.51.183]:51369 "EHLO vwisb7.vkw.tu-dresden.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261535AbTJIKd4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 06:33:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:33:55 +0200 From: Torsten Werner To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS speed problem when appending data to existing files Message-ID: <20031009103355.GA23290@vwisb7.vkw.tu-dresden.de> Mail-Followup-To: Torsten Werner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200310090008.14366.bernd-schubert@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200310090008.14366.bernd-schubert@web.de> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.21 i686 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Bernd, On 2003-10-09, Bernd Schubert wrote: > 2.4.22 has a client-side nfs-bug causing this. I'm not sure if this is > already fixed in 2.4.23-pre6, so I suggest you downgrade to 2.4.21. Thanks, that does avoid the error messages in the kernel log but it does not solve the problem. You can download a strace log from http://twerner.debian.net/strace.out.bz2 . You will see a programm that repeatedly opens a file in append mode, writes some data and closes the file. Sometimes the close need overs half a second which is far to much. (Please just 'grep close strace.out' to see it clearly.) It did work with some older kernel that I have already deinstalled. :-( Regards, Torsten -- Torsten Werner Dresden University of Technology email@twerner42.de +49 351 46336711 / +49 162 3123004 http://www.twerner42.de/ telefax: +49 351 46336809