tran@bungi.com (Tony Tran) (10/08/90)
I've recently upgraded a SUN 3/280 from SUN OS 3.4 to 4.1 nfs server, and have noticed an unusally high load average on this server. There is no application software running on this system. It has nothing but software to be exported to other clients. All it is running is nfsd daemon, ypbind, and cron. (See below) I would expect the load average to be well under 1 !!! System configuration: SUN 3/280; 16 MB of memory; 52 MB swap; trimmed kernel, 2 DK-815 Hitachi drives; SUN OS 4.1; Xylogic 450/451 controller; no client; running TMPFS. It exports its file systems to about 20 other diskful workstations. Is there anything seriously wrong with the setup of this server? WHY is the load so high? Any hints/suggestions/RTFM welcome Tony tran@bungi.com Load: $ uptime 1:35pm up 5:08, 1 user, load average: 6.83, 5.86, 5.41 $ nfsstat Server rpc: calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall 4227865 0 0 0 0 Server nfs: calls badcalls 4227865 0 null getattr setattr root lookup readlink read 19 0% 2102021 49% 35 0% 0 0% 4648 0% 647 0% 2118651 50% wrcache write create remove rename link symlink 0 0% 163 0% 77 0% 3 0% 0 0% 0 0% 5 0% mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat 1 0% 0 0% 1317 0% 278 0% Client rpc: calls badcalls retrans badxid timeout wait newcred timers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Client nfs: calls badcalls nclget nclsleep 0 0 0 0 null getattr setattr root lookup readlink read 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% wrcache write create remove rename link symlink 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% $ ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT START TIME COMMAND root 324 7.7 2.7 152 424 p0 R 13:37 0:00 ps aux root 96 7.4 0.0 40 0 ? S 08:28 21:24 (nfsd) root 97 6.6 0.0 40 0 ? S 08:28 20:37 (nfsd) root 99 3.5 0.0 40 0 ? S 08:28 18:10 (nfsd) root 100 2.7 0.0 40 0 ? S 08:28 19:03 (nfsd) root 101 1.6 0.0 40 0 ? S 08:28 23:07 (nfsd) root 98 1.6 0.0 40 0 ? S 08:28 20:57 (nfsd) root 102 0.4 0.0 40 0 ? S 08:28 20:48 (nfsd) root 264 0.0 0.3 40 40 ? S 13:17 0:05 in.rlogind root 55 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW 08:28 0:00 keyserv tran 265 0.0 0.0 72 0 p0 IW 13:17 0:01 -csh (csh) root 50 0.0 0.0 80 0 ? IW 08:28 0:02 portmap root 68 0.0 0.0 24 0 ? I 08:28 0:00 (biod) root 71 0.0 0.0 24 0 ? I 08:28 0:00 (biod) bin 53 0.0 0.0 40 0 ? IW 08:28 0:00 ypbind root 70 0.0 0.0 24 0 ? I 08:28 0:00 (biod) root 128 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW 08:28 0:06 inetd root 95 0.0 0.0 40 0 ? S 08:28 19:58 (nfsd) root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 08:27 0:00 pagedaemon root 151 0.0 0.0 112 0 ? IW 08:30 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q root 1 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW 08:27 0:00 /sbin/init - root 69 0.0 0.0 24 0 ? I 08:28 0:00 (biod) root 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 08:27 0:00 swapper root 273 0.0 1.1 64 168 p0 S 13:18 0:01 -u (csh) root 103 0.0 0.0 72 0 ? IW 08:28 0:03 rpc.mountd -n root 109 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW 08:28 0:00 rpc.statd root 119 0.0 0.1 24 16 ? S 08:28 1:23 update root 107 0.0 0.0 96 0 ? IW 08:28 0:00 rpc.lockd root 122 0.0 0.0 64 0 ? IW 08:28 0:00 cron root 166 0.0 0.0 56 0 ? IW 08:41 0:02 rpc.rquotad root 249 0.0 0.0 56 0 co IW 11:39 0:00 - std.9600 console (gett