Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:08:29 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Eric Patterson <ericp@ro.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfsd send error 55 Message-ID: <19980716150829.A22302@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980716125635.12240A-100000@sh1.ro.com>; from "Eric Patterson" on Thu Jul 16 13:55:48 GMT 1998 References: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980716125635.12240A-100000@sh1.ro.com>
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In the last episode (Jul 16), Eric Patterson said: > I have a machine running freebsd 2.2.6-RELEASE. Attached to it is a > RAID (CMD TECH CRD-5440 controller). It is mounted as one big 128 GB > file system. Several machines in turn mount this file system via > nfs. Most of the NFS clients are running IRIX. Quite often in a > day, I get the following message on the console of the freebsd NFS > server: > > <date/time/hostname> /kernel: nfsd send error 55 > <date/time/hostname> last message repeated X times > > None of the users of the NFS clients ever complain. I haven't > noticed any other really strange behavior. 55 is the errno number for "No buffer space available". So your ethernet card is backing up too much data. Take a look at your network; cable speed, switches, cards, etc: If you have: Consider using: Shared Port Switched Port 10mbit Port 100mbit Port ISA NIC PCI NIC Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100 cards go for around $70-80 nowadays, and at the moment, I'm doing ~9Mbyte/sec over NFS on a pair of them. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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