gentoo NFS oddity

[Asmodeus]

this is actually from the forum I run, but I'm at somewhat of a loss for answers, so I turn it over to you guys. maybe one of you all have a clue.

original link: http://hellselitelegions.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2567

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System: Dual AMD64, 3GB RAM, 1Gb LAN, 2.5TB 3Ware 9000 SATA Raid Array.

O/S: Gentoo Linux running with Vanilla 2.6.8.1 kernel (BCM5700 Network Card Patch) including nfs-utils 1.0.6 r4.

The oddity I am seeing is that when under stress over NFS it becomes unaccessible and will not work without rebooting, I don't see anything that relates to it other than this (not actually sure what this is):

Sep 9 15:07:09 talon07 Linux version 2.6.8.1 (root@talon07) (gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 9 15:02:04 BST 2004
Sep 9 15:11:41 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.66
Sep 9 15:11:41 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.17
Sep 9 15:11:41 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.27
Sep 9 15:13:01 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.65
Sep 9 15:17:22 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.162
Sep 9 15:17:22 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.5
Sep 9 15:17:22 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.105
Sep 9 15:17:22 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.73
Sep 9 15:17:22 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.59
Sep 9 15:23:13 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.5
Sep 9 15:23:13 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.105
Sep 9 15:23:13 talon07 rpc.statd[7595]: Received erroneous SM_UNMON request from talon07 for 130.141.7.184

previously we have been using Slackware to do the job with no problems any ideas?

I have heard various rumours which all sound like cod shit.

i.e. permissions on directories /var/lib/nfs/shm and /var/lib/nfs/shm.bak where the rpc.statd user cannot write to. which is balls as it's all setup fine.

However someting which does sound interesting is POSIX Locking, the advent of POSIX Locking can cause this. So I have now switched on POSIX ACLs for XFS and EXT3 so we'll see where that takes us.

Still I would like another opinion. CF?
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[wolfpac181]

don't know........but I want that machine!!!

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[urban_gorilla]

from google
what does "Received erroneous SM_UNMON request" mean?
Basically it means that your rpc.statd daemon is unaware of a lot of
its clients. It is probably failing to save their IP-numbers to disk.
Check therefore that the directories /var/lib/nfs/sm, and
/var/lib/nfs/sm.bak (or /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm, ... on some platforms)
are writable by the rpc.statd process.

[Springer]

*shakes head

bloody gentoo

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