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Date:      Fri, 9 May 1997 01:14:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org>
To:        taob@nbc.netcom.ca (Brian Tao)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS service mysteriously stopping on 2.2-RELENG?
Message-ID:  <199705090814.BAA13828@dog.farm.org>

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In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.970507183534.10469I-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca> you wrote:
>     The 2.2-970420-RELENG NFS server I put together for a client is
> humming along quite nicely, now that I've done fiddling with it.
> However, there is an intermittent problem with the three BSD/OS
> clients attached to it.  One two occasions in the past week, all three
> clients will "lose" the NFS server.

>     One client is running BSD/OS 2.1 with NFSv2 UDP mounts, and the
> other two are BSD/OS 3.0 with NFSv3 TCP mounts.  In addition to the
> "nfs server not responding" syslog messages, the TCP clients
> occasionally log this:

> May  7 04:14:26 shell1 kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server nfs:/user/.4
> May  7 05:38:45 shell1 kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server nfs:/user/.2
> May  7 05:38:45 shell1 kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server nfs:/user/.3
> May  7 05:38:45 shell1 kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server nfs:/user/.1
> May  7 17:48:24 shell1 kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server nfs:/user/.1
> May  7 17:48:24 shell1 kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server nfs:/user/.2
> May  7 17:48:24 shell1 kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server nfs:/user/.3
> May  7 17:48:24 shell1 kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server nfs:/user/.4

hmmm!  I repeatedly get the same error on FreeBSD 2,2 clients (some 2.2-GAMMA,
some 2.2.1-RELEASE) which are connected to NetApp server (running 4.0.3).
(For those now aware of NetApp, it is dedicated NFS server software running
on Intel and Alpha hardware, pricey, but well-performing).  So, this problem
is probably client-specific. (your clients are BSD/OS, so it is probably 4.4BSD
specific.)  It occurs with regularity, rarely, but constantly.  I use NFSv2 mounts.

>From looking at the source, it looks like an error while receiving RPC
from the server... specifically, in /sys/nfs/nfs_socket.c

here is a sample from my logs:

# grep nfs /var/log/messages
May  8 14:36:55 zen /kernel: nfs send error 32 for server filer:/
May  8 14:36:55 zen /kernel: nfs send error 32 for server filer:/
May  8 16:29:30 zen /kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server filer:/
May  8 17:30:55 zen /kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server filer:/
May  8 18:46:50 zen /kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server filer:/
May  8 19:10:20 zen /kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server filer:/
May  8 19:39:03 zen /kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server filer:/
May  8 20:05:56 zen /kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server filer:/
May  8 20:23:32 zen /kernel: short receive (0/4) from nfs server filer:/
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