NFS Server timeout problem

vad3r · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: NFS Server timeout problem

Hi all,

round about 5 minutes after i mounted a share from my nfs-server i run into a nfs-timeout.

There's not much network-traffic, so i think this is some kind of nfs problem. Heres a dmesg-output from the client with nfs-degugging enabled:

nfs: server tatooine not responding, timed out
nfs: write(Goldfinger-Foot_In_Mouth-2001-EGO/14-goldfinger-miles_away-ego.mp3(5252), 1400@1979768)
nfs: flush(0:e/5252)
NFS: nfs_update_inode(0:e/5252 ct=1 info=0x6)
NFS: dentry_delete(Goldfinger-Foot_In_Mouth-2001-EGO/14-goldfinger-miles_away-ego.mp3, 0)

A few seconds later the server works again and i can access my files. Here's my fstab-entrie on the client (i added tcp for testing. the problem exists with udp too):

tatooine:/data/mp3 /data/mp3 nfs tcp,nfsvers=3,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,soft,intr,bg,noauto,user 0 0

Any ideas how to fix this problem?? Thanks in forecast.

Moriah · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 2:31 am Post subject:

Do you have the portmapper running? YOu need to for NFS...

vad3r · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:23 am Post subject: Portmapper is running

Yes. Portmapper runs on Client and Server? Any more ideas??

Moriah · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:26 am Post subject:

Are you getting any nastygrams in /var/log/messages? Maybe your ethernet interface is timing out or something.

vad3r · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 7:07 pm Post subject:

Logfiles don't show any errors.

If i play mp3s on my client xmms hangs after playing 5 minutes. When i hit a key playing goes on. dmesg shows a nfs-server timeout.

Really strange.

Moriah · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 4:14 am Post subject:

You've got something messed up with your interrupts, I suspect. You probably have 2 devices interrupting on the same int, and neither knows about the other. Is plug&play set in your BIOS?