From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 15 20: 4:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B34137B401 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:04:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6G34GH05674; Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:04:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 22:04:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Arun Sharma Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS mount Linux Mandrake 8.0 -> FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE hang Message-ID: <20010715220415.A3289@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010715200102.A19948@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010715200102.A19948@sharmas.dhs.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 15), Arun Sharma said: > I use amd to NFS mount /net//foo > > and then try: > > $ cp /net/*/foo/bar to /tmp > > For small files, it works ok. For anything larger than a few kilobytes, > cp hangs. So does any command that does any directory operations on > /tmp. Try tcpdumping both machines. NFS prefers to use 8K data packets, so if you've got a broken router inbetween the two boxes, the packets may get dropped instead of fragmented. Going to TCP NFS mounts will fix it, if that is the problem. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message