From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 00:43:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25719 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:43:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles312.castles.com [208.214.167.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25686 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:43:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01489; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810160747.AAA01489@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "John W. DeBoskey" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current NFS problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:46:29 EDT." <199810160446.AAA23559@bb01f39.unx.sas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 00:47:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > No. Lack of ACCESS caching makes us slow and eats the network (because > > we are very good at generating/sending/receiving them). ... > I have 50 266 Mhz pc's clustered around 3 netapp F630 Filers used > as compile servers for an in-house distributed make facility. Yeep. Looks like a pretty monster build farm. I take it you're not targetting FreeBSD with the build itself? > 85% of the traffic to the netapp(s) 'was' due to access calls. I > do not recommend it for public consumption, but the following patch > reduces the access overhead to less than 20%. Hmm. I would (naively) have expected this to reduce it to 0. Where else do we make access RPCs from? > ps: BTW, I cannot amd mount the filers due to a problem with GARBAGE_ARGS > being returned from clnt_call() in amfs_host.c\fetch_fhandle() regardless > of whether I force a V2 or V3 mount protocol. This is a 'random' error > which I can get to occurr approximately 1 out of 10 mounts. Is this the "old" amd, or the "new" am-utils amd? It sounds like one or more uninitialised fields in the request structure... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message