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Date:      Wed, 26 May 1999 15:26:33 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>
To:        kent@erlang.ericsson.se
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem running NFS server
Message-ID:  <374BF688.6295EE61@telspace.alcatel.fr>
References:  <19990526145707M.kent@erlang.ericsson.se>

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Hello,

Do you use NFS v3 with TCP (which is the default on Sun) ?

If so, problems are to be expected : there was a thread on the subject
on -Stable and one outcome was the recommendation to use rather UDP with
NFS v3 (NFS on TCP may be better on FreeBSD v4.0-Current, but -Current
should not be used for production servers - more explanations on this
subject via a post by Daniel C. Sobral, dated Thu, 20 May 1999)

	TfH


Kent Boortz wrote:
> 
> I use FreeBSD 3.1 as an NFS server in an environment with almost
> exclusively Solaris Sparc workstations. I needed an extra NFS server
> for our "Daily Builds" so I grabbed an Dell Optiplex 264MHz PII with
> 64 MB RAM and I put in an extra 7200 rpm 14 GB IDE disk to export
> using NFS. It is connected with 100 Mbit ethernet to a switch.
> 
> Problem is, it has problems working as an NFS server. The load is
> heavy at time from up to three clients. But I expected a FreeBSD
> system to deal with this at least as good as an old Ultra 1
> SparcStation that I used earlier as an NFS server. Could you give me
> hints about what the problem can be and maybe what commands to use for
> monitoring the problem? I include the "dmesg" output at the end of
> this mail.
> 
> The Solaris client get lots of "NFS server turkey not responding still
> trying" and some /var/adm/messages
> 
>   NFS create failed for server turkey: error 11 (RPC: Server can't decode arguments)
>   NFS create failed for server turkey: error 9 (RPC: Program/version mismatch)
>   NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 10 (RPC: Procedure unavailable)
>   NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 11 (RPC: Server can't decode arguments)
>   NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 7 (RPC: Authentication error)
>   NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 8 (RPC: Program unavailable)
>   NFS lookup failed for server turkey: error 9 (RPC: Program/version mismatch)
> 
> In the log file from one the daily builds there was two "I/O error"
> writing to the NFS exported disk. The FreeBSD box has no /var/log/messages
> that i can relate to this problems.
> 
> The FreeBSD machine has also rebooted a couple of times with no trace
> of the cause in the message log. It has also lost network contact a
> couple of times requiring a reboot (I don't have details about the
> state it was in, I was not the one rebooting it). No heavy load at the
> time for the spontaneous reboots or lost contact.
> 
> I suspect DMA is disabled from the dmesg output below, how do I enable it?
> Can this be the problem?
> 
> Is the 64MB memory the problem?
> 
> Does the NFS errors above indicate ethernet card buffer overun?
> 
> Is there incompatibilities between NFS clients on Solaris 2.5.1 and
> the NFS server on FreeBSD 3.1?
> 
> Or is FreeBSD 3.1 not stable enough? Should I switch to FreeBSD 2.X?
> 
> Or is it really true that IDE sucks?  ;-)
> 
> /kgb
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #4: Thu Apr 29 14:12:04 CEST 1999
>     root@scotch:/a/super/export/exec/x86.freebsd/src/sys/compile/CSLAB
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Pentium II (264.89-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x634  Stepping=4
>   Features=0x80f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX>
> real memory  = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
> avail memory = 62291968 (60832K bytes)
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xf02d8000.
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
> chip0: <Host to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7180)> rev 0x03 on pci0.0.0
> chip1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7181)> rev 0x03 on pci0.1.0
> chip2: <Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0
> ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX4 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.1
> chip3: <Intel 82371AB Power management controller> rev 0x01 on pci0.7.3
> chip4: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=1011 device=0024)> rev 0x03 on pci0.15.0
> xl0: <3Com 3c905 Fast Etherlink XL 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.17.0
> xl0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:4f:91:6b:d4
> xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (full-duplex, 100Mbps)
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
> vga0: <ATI model 4744 graphics accelerator> rev 0x5c on pci1.0.0
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 2:
> Probing for PnP devices:
> CSN 1 Vendor ID: CSC6835 [0x3568630e] Serial 0xffffffff Comp ID: @@@0000 [0x00000000]
> mss_attach <CS4236B>1 at 0x530 irq 5 dma 1:0 flags 0x10
> pcm1 (CS423x/Yamaha/AD1816 <CS4236B> sn 0xffffffff) at 0x530-0x537 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x10 on isa
> Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
> sc0 on isa
> sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
> atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
> atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
> psm0 not found
> sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
> sio1: type 16550A
> pcm0 not probed due to drq conflict with pcm1 at 1
> wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
> wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 84320D4>
> wd0: 4120MB (8438850 sectors), 8930 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
> wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <IBM-DTTA-371440>
> wd2: 13783MB (28229040 sectors), 28005 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
> wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): <NEC                 CD-ROM DRIVE:288/3.04>, removable, dma, iordy
> acd0: drive speed 2067 - 4134KB/sec, 128KB cache
> acd0: supported read types: CD-R, CD-DA
> acd0: Audio: play, 16 volume levels
> acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray
> acd0: Medium: no/blank disc inside, unlocked
> fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
> ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa
> ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
> nlpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
> nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
> npx0 on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
> apm0 flags 0x31 on isa
> apm: found APM BIOS version 1.2
> changing root device to wd0s1a
> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
> ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
> ffs_mountfs: superblock updated for soft updates
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