NFS 4 client callback port

[Trond Myklebust]

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 08:52 -0400, Talpey, Thomas wrote:
> At 08:47 AM 6/12/2008, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> >I got only one, that's correct:
> >[root at chatelet ~]# ps ax | grep nfsv4-svc
> >  7146 ?        S      0:00 [nfsv4-svc]
> 
> I think this is sufficient evidence that the ports you are seeing are not
> NFSv4 callback ports. Do you see the port count rise as you do nfs4
> mounts manually?

The following patch was merged into 2.6.25 to fix a callback server
leak:

  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git&a=commitdiff&h=8e60029f403781b8a63b7ffdb7dc1faff6ca651e

If Guillaume is running a 2.6.24 based kernel, then this might well be
the source of his extra sockets.

Trond