Configuring the HPE Data Fabric POSIX Client

Explains how to set the number of RPC requests that POSIX clients send to a cluster.

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 cluster to be 128.

Perform the following steps as the root user on each POSIX client machine:

Procedure

  1. 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
    These commands enable the configuration to persist after a reboot of the NFS client machine.
  2. Issue the following echo commands: 
    echo 128 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/tcp_slot_table_entries
echo 128 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/tcp_max_slot_table_entries
    The commands enable the configuration to take effect after you remount the POSIX client to the HPE Data Fabric cluster.
  3. Remount the POSIX client to the HPE Data Fabric cluster. For example, the following commands unmount and mount the NFS assuming that the cluster is mounted at /mapr: 
    umount /mapr
mount -o hard,nolock 127.0.0.1:/mapr /mapr
    NOTE
    Failure to configure this property may result in the following error in /usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs/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

    CentOS Troubleshooting Tip

    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.