From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 26 17:09:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12867 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:09:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12850 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:09:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (mail.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.21]) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA01548; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:09:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:09:22 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis cc: viren@rstcorp.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server In-Reply-To: <199802270007.WAA17130@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > I have some problems with NFS that I could not yet track down the source. > If I try to use NFS in a full 100Mbps network, some time the client locks > up completely, and I have to reboot. The problem seens to have diminished > a lot when I upgraded the server's CPU from P90 to P200, so I think it's > some kind of performance feature. Somebody said the problem is my network > card, 3c905, that is a bad performing one, but this is not an excuse for > a locking up NFS client. I do believe that's right. I have a 905 too, but I only use it in 10 Mbps mode. IIRC, it only has 4k cache, split between transmit and recieve, so when there's heavy traffic, it goes nuts and drags the system down with it. Blame 3Com, not the OS. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message