acess log over nfs hanging

[David Birdsong]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin at citrin.ru> wrote:

> On 02/07/14 20:28, Jader H. Silva wrote:
>
>> It seems that when some processes are running in the nfs server, the
>> share won't
>> allow writing for some time and I noticed all nginx workers in status D
>> and not
>> processing requests.
>>
>
> I general it is a bad idea to write logs over NFS instead local HDD.
>
> If you need central log store across many servers:
> - write logs locally
> - rotate as often as need (SIGUSR1)
> - copy logs to cental log server (rsync is handy for this, but other
> methods are possible)


yeah, try out: http://hekad.readthedocs.org/

it's like syslog but can write to pretty much any backend store.


>
>
>  Are all access.log writes blocking?
>>
>
> yes, blocking
>
>
>  If my nfs server shutdown in an unexpected
>> way, will nginx stop proxying requests to the backend or responses to the
>> client?
>>
>
> yes, will stop
>
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