From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 2 16:46:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51BD216A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:46:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D1443D4C for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:46:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@mcneil.com) Received: from mail.mcneil.com (rrcs-west-24-199-45-54.biz.rr.com [24.199.45.54])i330kHUL024360; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:46:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11093FD2BB; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:46:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.mcneil.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mcneil.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03313-10; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:46:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.199.45.54] (mcneil.com [24.199.45.54]) by mail.mcneil.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BD7FD266; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:46:16 -0800 (PST) From: Sean McNeil To: Dan Nelson In-Reply-To: <20040402163353.GC6724@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1080882894.5980.26.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040402163353.GC6724@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080953176.51721.0.camel@server.mcneil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 16:46:16 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mcneil.com cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs server issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 00:46:21 -0000 The problem has been resolved. It was an issue with the hardware checksums done by my NIC. I turned off this feature and it is working great now. Sean On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 08:33, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Apr 01), Sean McNeil said: > > I have googled and seen a great deal of talk about FreeBSD nfs client > > issues, but haven't seen anything about server problems. I've now > > tried with a Solaris 2.7, HPUX 11.11, and 2 different Linux boxes and > > I get the same thing happening... > > > > If I mount an nfs partition on any of the above mentioned machines, > > everything works fine until I try to copy a bunch of files over. For > > instance, if I mount it at /mnt and do > > > > cd /localdisk; (cd /mnt; tar cf - .) | tar xvf - > > > > It will lock up hard. Linux is saying > > > > nfs: task xxxx can't get a request slot > > "tcpdump -s0" output might help here, I think. Do it from both > machines and make sure no packets are being dropped, and then check to > see what NFS request the client is trying to make that isn't getting > processed.