From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 27 07:25:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02606 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:25:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helix.mdy.univie.ac.at (helix.mdy.univie.ac.at [131.130.40.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02600 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 07:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stefan@mdy.univie.ac.at) Received: from alpha.mdy.univie.ac.at (alpha.mdy.univie.ac.at [131.130.40.3]) by helix.mdy.univie.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24798 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:24:56 +0100 (MET) From: Stefan Boresch Received: (from stefan@localhost) by alpha.mdy.univie.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00611 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:29:59 +0100 (MEZ) Message-Id: <199802271529.QAA00611@alpha.mdy.univie.ac.at> Subject: Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 27 Feb 98 16:29:58 MEZ Reply-To: stefan@mdy.univie.ac.at Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I briefly contributed to this thread by mentioning that I was/am encountering severe (performance) problems between a FreeBSD server (2.2-stable machine, last make world around end of January) and SGIs running IRIX 5.3 and 6.1 as the client. In return the question came up whether this happens using NFSv3 or NFSv2. It turns out that this is a good question. I sort of 'inherited' the administration of these SGIs and have little expertise in IRIX 5.3 and 6.1. I don't find in the manpages any option to choose between NFSv3 and NFSv2. I believe, however, that 5.3 doesn't even support v3. Further, doesn't mounting with mount -t nfs -o wsize=1024 server1:/temp_data /tmp_mnt/data (or a larger size for wsize) imply NFSv2. The wsize option is irrelevant for v3, isn't it. I frequently have to mount as specified above as omitting the wsize statement leads to file truncation errors. BTW, the syslog entry on IRIX 6.1 specifically mentions NFS2 (I cut it out wrong in my last posting) |||| Feb 27 13:28:12 2A:octopus unix: NFS2 write failed for server server1: Can't encode arguments Feb 27 13:28:12 2A:octopus unix: NFS write error 5 on host server1 Feb 27 13:28:18 2A:octopus unix: xdr_bytes: bad size FAILED My main gripe is truly the performance, 20kB/sec isn't usable for anything practical! (It can't be my network since FreeBSD as a NFS client easily does 1MB/sec (this is a switched 10MBit EThernet installation), for ftp even slightly better!) I am happy to test and follow suggestion. Thanks, Stefan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message