NFS Hangs ... NFS4ERR_DELAY

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 02:48:11PM -0500, Norman Elton wrote:
> I've posted the results from an strace on the client's idmapd:
> 
> http://pastebin.com/f760d62b5

Sorry, I should have just asked for the server; the client's not the
problem here.

> Running strace on the server's idmapd doesn't seem to produce  
> anything. It looks like idmapd is only consulted on the client's side.

OK, that's wrong.

Is there anything in

	cat /proc/net/rpc/nfs4.idtoname/content

?

> I see some errors about /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt4d/idmap not  
> existing. In my case, /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs is empty.

Let's ignore any client-side errors, the problem is those NFS4ERR_DELAY
returns from the server.

--b.