Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 11:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/3674: NFS in 2.2 RELEASE hangs. Message-ID: <199705281840.LAA25976@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/3674; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Jose A Rodriguez <rodigue@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/3674: NFS in 2.2 RELEASE hangs. Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 19:34:03 +0100 (BST) On Tue, 27 May 1997, Jose A Rodriguez wrote: > When I read that the problem might be caused by a fast server > overwhelming a slower client, I did the following to prevent IP > fragmentation: > > mount -t nfs -o -r=1024 remote_machine:/remote_directory /mnt > > Then I did > > cp /mnt/remote_file local_file > > and after a few seconds I started to get kernel panics ! (Page faults > while in kernel mode, LRU queue inconsistent, and other nasty messages). > > By the way, the client's network card is AMD PCNET (pci & isa), > at least this is what Win95 reports. Ouch! It certainly shouldn't do that. Can you copy down the information that the kernel prints on the panic and send it to me along with the part of 'nm -n /kernel' which contains the instruction pointer where it faulted. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039
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