> On 20 Dec 2019, at 19:19, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca>
wrote:
>
> Adam McDougall wrote:
>> Try changing bool_t do_tcp = FALSE; to TRUE in
>> /usr/src/sys/nlm/nlm_prot_impl.c, recompile the kernel and try again. I
>> think this makes it match Linux client behavior. I suspect I ran into
>> the same issue as you. I do think I used nolockd is a workaround
>> temporarily. I can provide some more details if it works.
> If this fixes the problem, please let me know.
>
> I'm not sure I'd want to change the default, since it might break
things for
> others, but I can definitely make it a tunable, so that people don't
need to
> recompile a kernel to deal with it.
>
great! I was just about to see how it can be done(tunable) but need to check if
it can be done
at any time, or just at boot time.
thanks.
btw, currently, from several hours of analysing the traffic, it seems that nlm
is UDP.
danny
> rick
>
> On 12/19/19 9:21 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 19 Dec 2019, at 16:09, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at
uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>> [stuff snipped]
>>>> all mounts are nfsv3/tcp
>>> This doesn't affect what the NLM code (rpc.lockd) uses. I
honestly don't know when
>>> the NLM uses tcp vs udp. I think rpc.statd still uses IP broadcast
at times.
>> can the replay cache have any influence here? I tend to remember way
back issues
>> with it,
>>>
>>> To me, it looks like a network configuration issue.
>> that was/is my gut feelings too, but, as far as we can tell, nothing
has changed in the network infrastructure,
>> the problems appeared after the NetAPP?s software was updated, it was
working fine till then.
>>
>> the problems are also happening on freebsd 12.1
>>
>>> You could capture packets (maybe when a client first starts
rpc.statd and rpc.lockd)
>>> and then look at them in wireshark. I'd disable statup of
rpc.lockd and rpc.statd
>>> at boot for a test client and then run something like:
>>> # tcpdump -s 0 -s out.pcap host <netapp-host>
>>> - and then start rpc.statd and rpc.lockd
>>> Then I'd look at out.pcap in wireshark (much better at decoding
this stuff than
>>> tcpdump). I'd look for things like different reply IP addresses
from the Netapp,
>>> which might confuse this tired old NLM protocol Sun devised in the
mid-1980s.
>>>
>> it?s going to be an interesting week end :-(
>>
>>>> the error is also appearing on freebsd-11.2-stable, I?m now
checking if it?s also
>>>> happening on 12.1
>>>> btw, the NetApp version is 9.3P17
>>> Yes. I wasn't the author of the NSM and NLM code (long ago I
refused to even
>>> try to implement it, because I knew the protocol was badly broken)
and I avoid
>>> fiddling with. As such, it won't have change much since around
FreeBSD7.
>> and we haven?t had any issues with it for years, so you must have done
something good
>>
>> cheers,
>> danny
>>
>>>
>>> rick
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> danny
>>>
>>>> rick
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>>
>>>> Richard
>>>> (NetApp admin)
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 15:46, Daniel Braniss <danny at
cs.huji.ac.il<mailto:danny at cs.huji.ac.il>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 18 Dec 2019, at 16:55, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at
uoguelph.ca<mailto:rmacklem at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel Braniss wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> The server with the problems is running FreeBSD 11.1
stable, it was working fine for >several months,
>>>>>> but after a software upgrade of our NetAPP server it?s
reporting many lockd errors >and becomes catatonic,
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Dec 18 13:11:02 moo-09 kernel: nfs server
fr-06:/web/www: lockd not responding
>>>>>> Dec 18 13:11:45 moo-09 last message repeated 7 times
>>>>>> Dec 18 13:12:55 moo-09 last message repeated 8 times
>>>>>> Dec 18 13:13:10 moo-09 kernel: nfs server
fr-06:/web/www: lockd is alive again
>>>>>> Dec 18 13:13:10 moo-09 last message repeated 8 times
>>>>>> Dec 18 13:13:29 moo-09 kernel: sonewconn: pcb
0xfffff8004cc051d0: Listen queue >overflow: 194 already in queue awaiting
acceptance (1 occurrences)
>>>>>> Dec 18 13:14:29 moo-09 kernel: sonewconn: pcb
0xfffff8004cc051d0: Listen queue >overflow: 193 already in queue awaiting
acceptance (3957 occurrences)
>>>>>> Dec 18 13:15:29 moo-09 kernel: sonewconn: pcb
0xfffff8004cc051d0: Listen queue >overflow: 193 already in queue awaiting
acceptance ?
>>>>> Seems like their software upgrade didn't improve
handling of NLM RPCs?
>>>>> Appears to be handling RPCs slowly and/or intermittently.
Note that no one
>>>>> tests it with IPv6, so at least make sure you are still
using IPv4 for the mounts and
>>>>> try and make sure IP broadcast works between client and
Netapp. I think the NLM
>>>>> and NSM (rpc.statd) still use IP broadcast sometimes.
>>>>>
>>>> we are ipv4 - we have our own class c :-)
>>>>> Maybe the network guys can suggest more w.r.t. why, but as
I've stated before,
>>>>> the NLM is a fundamentally broken protocol which was never
published by Sun,
>>>>> so I suggest you avoid using it if at all possible.
>>>> well, at the moment the ball is on NetAPP court, and switching
to NFSv4 at the moment is out of the question, it?s
>>>> a production server used by several thousand students.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - If the locks don't need to be seen by other clients,
you can just use the "nolockd"
>>>>> mount option.
>>>>> or
>>>>> - If locks need to be seen by other clients, try NFSv4
mounts. Netapp filers
>>>>> should support NFSv4.1, which is a much better protocol
that NFSv4.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good luck with it, rick
>>>> thanks
>>>> danny
>>>>
>>>>> ?
>>>>> any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> danny
>>>>>
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