> We had a similar issue with 100 CentOS 5 and Fedora 7 desktops mounting > their $HOME directories from a Centos 4 server. We would see a steady > (perfectly linear) increase of getattr and lookup requests from the time > users logged in until they shutoff their machines (logging off stopped > the linear growth but didn't always bring the number of requests down). > Running hundreds of dstats and straces finally showed that the gamin > package on each of the clients was causing all of the requests and > simply killing that single process would instantly drop the getattr > requests from 200 a second down to 3 or 4 a second where it should be. > That was 200 per client so you can imagine how bad it would get! We > rebuilt the gamin-0.1.9-5.rpm package and deployed it to all of the > machines. We instantly saw improvement and we currently average 3 > getattr requests a second. I don't know if this will help your situation > but maybe someone will benefit. Intriguing. Chris, did you have this problem with all architectures? Did you apply any patches when rebuilding gamin?