Sudden Slow Performance
Kelvin Williams
kelvin-lists at williamschadwell.com
Mon Dec 15 15:47:56 UTC 2008
I just executed a sniff on the DHCP Server. This is for ONE client.
Time Message Transaction ID
21s DISCOVER 0x1179
25s OFFER 0x1179
26s DISCOVER 0x117a
34s OFFER 0x117a
35s DISCOVER 0x117b
44s OFFER 0x117b
46s REQUEST 0x117b
50s REQUEST 0x117b
54s ACK 0x117b
58s ACK 0x117b
The client is getting all messages; but appears to be giving up and starting
again after the wait.
kw
-----Original Message-----
From: dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
[mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Tom Greaser
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 10:10 AM
To: 'Users of ISC DHCP'
Subject: RE: Sudden Slow Performance
Have you sniffed / snooped a station to see if its getting this Offer / ACK
?
>>> "Kelvin Williams" <kelvin-lists at williamschadwell.com> 12/15/08 9:52 AM
>>>
The entire network.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Tom Greaser
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 9:47 AM
To: 'Users of ISC DHCP'
Subject: RE: Sudden Slow Performance
Is this effecting All of your network or just a few subnets ?
Ive had issues like this.. but only for specific networks.. I had a switch
that
would auto prune spanning tree .. Thus i would get the DHCPDISCOVER but
never the clients would never see the
DHCPOFFER.
I manually made sure that network was never pruned..
>>> "Kelvin Williams" <kelvin-lists at williamschadwell.com> 12/15/08 9:38 AM
>>>
Network good. No errors on the interfaces.
No disk errors reported.
No patches applied.
CPU and Memory levels are good.
Number of clients always increases--but not a drastic amount. Maybe 50 new
clients.
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[mailto:dhcp-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Satchell
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 9:25 AM
To: dhcp-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: Sudden Slow Performance
>From: "Kelvin Williams" <kelvin-lists at williamschadwell.com>
>To: <dhcp-users at lists.isc.org>
>Subject: Sudden Slow Performance
>Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:57:08 -0500
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> We've been operating one of our DHCP Servers for approximately 6 months
> without any issues. This server is on a network with about 2,500 hosts.
> The server has worked flawlessly until last week when it became extremely
> slow.
>
> Clients are having to send multiple DISCOVERs before the server will
> respond, and sometimes the server does not respond timely to a REQUEST.
> Causing the clients to timeout and stop attempting.
>
> We've reviewed the server's load, and its very, very light. vmstat
doesn't
> show any bottlenecks in the processor or disk. The current version we are
> running is 3.1.1;
>
> As I stated, this all occurred within the last week. Can anyone recommend
> something to check? Or is there a way to get greater verbosity from the
> debug mode?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Kw
Have you checked out the hardware, network, etc? Maybe there is a hardware
fault. Consider the slow dhcp response to be a symtim rather than the fault?
Could be a number of things:
- faulty network. try a different cable and/or switch port and/or nic
- disk errors. check logs for warnings or errors
- operating system patches. done any os patches around the time it went bad?
- any other system changes at that time?
- rogue process using all available cpu or memory?
- did the number of clients increase that week?
regards,
-glenn
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