From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 08:16:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346E5106566B for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:16:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75FA8FC1D for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7881 invoked by uid 399); 30 Nov 2010 07:49:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 30 Nov 2010 07:49:45 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4CF4AC98.7090304@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:49:44 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101028 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam McDougall References: <4CF44E2E.4070700@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4CF44E2E.4070700@egr.msu.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stale NFS file handles on 8.x amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:16:27 -0000 On 11/29/2010 17:06, Adam McDougall wrote: > I've been running dovecot 1.1 on FreeBSD 7.x for a while with a bare > minimum of NFS problems, but it got worse with 8.x. I have 2-4 servers > (usually just 2) accessing mail on a Netapp over NFSv3 via imapd. There are a whole lot more variables that I haven't seen covered yet. Are you using TCP mounts or UDP mounts? Try toggling that setting and see if your performance increases. Are you using rpc.lockd, or not? Try toggling that. What mount options are you using other than TCP/UDP? What does the network topology look like? It's very likely that we can help you here, but more information is needed. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/