From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 8 10:05:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12291 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12257 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:04:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from cole.salk.edu (cole [198.202.70.113]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA20847; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 10:04:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol To: stephen farrell cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS hanging in 2.2.6-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <87zphx12wh.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Apr 1998, stephen farrell wrote: > Tom Bartol writes: > > > I've got a new ThinkPad 770 with a 3Com 3C589D installed and running > > 2.2.6-RELEASE. The installation was totally painless (thanks to all of > > you!). It's on the net and I can telnet and ftp without a hitch but I've > > run into a problem with NFS. I can mount disks served by our NFS servers > > (either Auspex or FreeBSD running -current) but when I try to copy files > > from the laptop to the servers it'll copy a few megabytes and then all > > network traffic stops completely and the machine is not pingable. I > > cannot Ctrl-C out of the NFS cpio operation but I can still use other > > windows on the machine just fine everything seems quite responsive. > > netstat -m, nfsstat, and systat -vmstat don't seem to show anything > > unusual. Pstat shows the cpio process that I was using stuck in state > > "D". cp and tar also behave this way. I have also explicitly mounted in > > NFSv2 mode but this didn't help. I have included output of dmesg and my > > kernel config file below in case this helps. Let me know what other > > information might help. Oh, this just in... ftp also hangs in this way > > as well -- it just get a little further along before it does. Anyone have > > any clues about this one? > > TCP or UDP? Try doing a udp mount if you're doing it tcp now. Any > other mount options that you are using? > > -- > > Steve Farrell I didn't use any mount options (except when I experimented with NFSv3 vs. NFSv2) so I assume mount_nfs automatically negotiated UDP to the Auspex and TCP to the -current machine. To update the status of my progress further: Today I installed PAO and it's kernel which is based on 2.2.5-RELEASE. So now my 3C589D is using the ep driver instead of the zp driver and ShaZam! It works perfectly now! So it definitely looks like a problem in 2.2.6-RELEASE, perhaps with the zp driver (since, as I said above I discovered the problem exists in ftp as well and thus is not unique to NFS). Does any one know if it's possible to apply the PAO patches to the 2.2.6-RELEASE kernel? I'll try it anyhow and see for myself. This might help to narrow down where the problem is in 2.2.6. I'll follow-up with a report of my progress in this area... Thanks for your help, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message