From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 21 9:55:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E20A0153B2 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:55:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA02026; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:09:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:09:03 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kevin Day Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alright, who's the smart alleck that fixed NFS this last week? :) , WAS: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need tester In-Reply-To: <199904211631.LAA29863@home.dragondata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > > yeah the clocks are not setup properly :) but otherwise i'm just > > gonna say HOLY SH*T you fixed NFS! :) > > > We all owe Matt big for this. :) > > > > I'm using the default mount operations, as far as NFS server > > not responding messages, i have no clue, but the server is still > > up and i've seen that message happen when a lot of pressure is > > being put on an NFS server even though everything is fine. > > Try mounting with -d... Can I make a guess that the NFS mount is going over > 100MB ethernet? I have a strong theory that the dynamic retransmit timer > needs rework for low latency connections, with high variability in their > performance during high traffic. (lots of collisions) Hmmm, well the client/server are both on 100mbit full duplex switched ethernet, fxp0<->fxp0 with no load other than the build going on. btw, just finished run 4 of buildworld, still kicking. I would just like to say, that unlike certain zealots of other operating systems I've always been a bit hesitant to recommend FreeBSD over solaris because of this one factor (NFS). It now seems I can't think of a single reason, (I'm much more a cluster fan than an SMP fan) SMP just doesn't buy you enough to justify putting all your eggs in one basket... Oh and the client is SMP, so i'm quite impressed on that fron as well. Oh and the newbus stuff.... "rah rah rah!" works like a charm except my USB (which i have no prepherals for anyhow). -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message