topic Re: biod: async_daemon Function is not available in Operating System - HP-UX

biod: async_daemon Function is not available

Rcky Mntere — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:07:33 GMT

I'm seeing the following error:
# /usr/sbin/biod 16
/usr/sbin/biod: async_daemon Function is not available

What is causing this to fail?

Environment: HPUX 11.31 (upgraded in place from 11.23) rx4640 itanium

nfsd is configured to run with 16 processes as defined in /etc/rc.config./nfsconf but the following processes are running:

# ps -ef | grep -i nfs
root 33 0 0 13:14:07 ? 0:00 nfs4_async_io
root 32 0 0 13:14:07 ? 0:00 nfs4clntkd
root 31 0 0 13:14:07 ? 0:00 nfs_failover
root 30 0 0 13:14:07 ? 0:00 nfs_async_io
root 28 0 0 13:14:07 ? 0:00 nfs_reclaim
root 75 0 0 13:14:31 ? 0:00 nfs4srvkd
root 74 0 0 13:14:31 ? 0:00 nfslogkd
root 1087 1 0 13:15:26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfs4cbd
root 2152 1 0 13:16:19 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/nfsd

Re: biod: async_daemon Function is not available

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:21:04 GMT

biod(1M) says the command is obsolete on 11.31.
Also see nfs2_max_threads(5), nfs3_max_threads(5), nfs4_max_threads(5).

Why are you even executing the command instead of using the RC scripts?

Re: biod: async_daemon Function is not available

TTr — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:26:25 GMT

Why are you trying to start biod manually? You are using NFSv4 in 11.31, there is no biod
Take a look in
http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6469/ch06s12.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/13578/nfsv4_whitepaper.pdf

Re: biod: async_daemon Function is not available

Rcky Mntere — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:40:12 GMT

Ah... thanks for the information. I did the upgrade in place with an OV Operations Manager Agent running on the system and now (after the upgrade) I'm getting a constant flow of OPC OSSPI OS messages:

nfssrv Service: Process "/usr/sbin/nfsd 16": Number of process instances (0) less than min

and

nfsclnt Service: Process "/usr/sbin/biod 16": Number of process instances (0) less than min

So, I expected something to be in error. I'm not seeing these on another 11.31 system.

I'll have to remove the deployed template that is causing this.

Again, thank you both and sorry for the meaningless inquiry.

Re: biod: async_daemon Function is not available

Dennis Handly — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:21:59 GMT

>sorry for the meaningless inquiry

Don't worry, we hope it helps someone else.
It appears these "OPC OSSPI OS" messages need to be fixed.