linux-kernel - Re: nfs NULL procedure packets

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Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:45:22 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Russell Miller <duskglow@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfs NULL procedure packets

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:11:26AM -0800, Russell Miller wrote:
> Hi again, I was hoping someone here could answer another question.  I
> apologize if these are easy questions...
> 
> So a couple of days ago I was troubleshooting yet another NFS problem
> (not the non-one I described a few days ago).  I sent a 1G file over
> to a server, did a TCP capture, and analyzed the results.
> 
> I noticed a lot of NULL procedure packets.  A *lot* of them.  In some
> cases, one every 10 microseconds, and there were about 400,000 of them
> I captured.
> 
> This seems like a lot of network traffic for very little reason.
> 
> Is this normal behavior, or something I should investigate further?
> It seems to me like pinging the NFS server once every 10 microseconds
> is a major waste of bandwidth.

It's either a bug, or you're misreading the traces--how are you
identifying these as NULL procedures?  Also, are they NULL NFS calls, or
some other rpc protocol?  And are you using krb5?

--b.
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