From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 3 00:51:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA19232 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phmit.demon.co.uk (phmit.demon.co.uk [194.222.15.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA19225 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 00:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@phmit.demon.co.uk) Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk [10.100.35.12] by phmit.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0zlUUi-0004XB-00; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 08:52:16 +0000 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zlUUh-0000Os-00; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 08:52:15 +0000 To: Mike Smith cc: cjclark@home.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS problems... X-Mailer: nmh v0.26 X-Colour: Green Organization: Palmer & Harvey McLane In-reply-to: Mike Smith's message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 14:58:53 PST" <199812022258.OAA08949@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 08:52:15 +0000 From: Dom Mitchell Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 December 1998, Mike Smith proclaimed: > > I don't see why not. NFSv3 is supposed to use tcp AFAIK. > > Rubbish. Definitely try using TCP mounts here; there's empirical > evidence that tends to indicate that when working with Solaris servers > there's a reasonable chance of either dropping response packets or > having response packets "lost" in some other fashion. I was using TCP mounts, with NFSv3 initially. However, it realyl didn't work very well. > > I've managed to cure my problems by switching back to nfsv2 and turning > > off the new access cache, in the meantime. > > Since the access cache only affects v3 mounts, turning it off really > just amounts to the waving of a dead chicken here. Thank you. I wasn't aware of that. I wonder what was causing a difference in that case, because it certainly appeared to cause problems. Regardless, I now have a (moderately) working setup, using UDP, NFSv2. The only problems that I have had so far have been starting netscape. It caused the hang every time. Renaming my ~/.netscape directory to something else caused the problem to go away... Anyhow, thanks for your help, folks. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator ``Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.'' -- Henry Spencer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message