Configuring the Linux NFS Client

Describes how to set the optimal number of RPC requests to the NFS server.

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

  1. 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
  2. To enable the configuration to take effect after you remount the NFS client to the NFS for the HPE Data Fabric 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
  3. Remount the NFS client to the NFS for the HPE Data Fabric gateway. For example, the following commands unmount and mount NFS for the HPE Data Fabric 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
    TIP
    For CentOS, after the reboot of the node, if the /proc/sys/sunrpc directory is not available or if rpcidmapd is not running, start the rpcidmapd service using the following command: 
    service rpcidmapd start