Configuring the Linux NFS Client
About this task
The default RPC requests configuration can negatively impact performance and memory. To avoid performance and memory issues, configure the number of outstanding RPC requests to the NFS server to be 128.
Perform the following steps as the root
user on each NFS client
machine:
Procedure
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To enable the configuration to persist after a reboot of the NFS client
machine, issue the following commands to create the sunrpc.conf file under
/etc/modprobe.d with the recommended configuration:
echo "options sunrpc tcp_slot_table_entries=128" >> /etc/modprobe.d/sunrpc.conf echo "options sunrpc tcp_max_slot_table_entries=128" >> /etc/modprobe.d/sunrpc.conf
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To enable the configuration to take effect after you remount the NFS client to
the NFS gateway, issue the following echo commands:
echo 128 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/tcp_slot_table_entries echo 128 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/tcp_max_slot_table_entries
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Remount the NFS client to the NFS gateway. For example, the following commands
unmount and mount the NFS assuming that the cluster is mounted at
/mapr
:# umount /mapr # mount -o hard,nolock <hostname>:/mapr /mapr
NOTE: Failure to configure this property may result in the following error in /opt/mapr/logs/nfsserver.log:ERROR nfsserver[38960] fs/nfsd/requesthandle.cc:791 0.0.0.0[0] cannot allocate more OncRpcContexts: [numDropped=2556001] dropping connection from nfsc=10.13.64.225:0
NOTE: CentOS Troubleshooting Tip: After the reboot of the node, if the /proc/sys/sunrpc directory not available or if rpcidmapd is not running, start the rpcidmapd service using the following command: service rpcidmapd start