RE: [Xen-users] NFS DomU Client Performance

HAWKER, Dan
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:18:11 -0000

> Sounds to me like a daemon (statd/lockd/rgcgidd etc)
> problem... I expect
> you are not running quite the same configuration in the domU,
> which isn''t
> suprising as some distributions don''t have standard NFS
> daemons and the
> xen builds are not going to reproduce that. I expect the NFS
> daemon on the
> client is trying to talk to the local daemon which is
> missing, timing out,
> and continuing.
>
> 90 or 105 second delays are _not_ likely to be a XEN issue...
> although as
> Mats has pointed out, there can be checksum issues.
>
> Try adding  "-o nolock,ro" to the mount command... if that goes
"way
> faster", then you have a better idea of where the issue lies.
>
> -Tom
>

And the winner is Tom :)

That makes the mount instantaneous again. So I guess I do have a daemon
problem. After investigating, yes, it seems the client(s) I am having these
poor results on do not have a lockd process running.

So onto the crux...  How do I enable it???

Dan

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