From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 1 16:03:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01712 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:03:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01684 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:02:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01875; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:02:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd001808; Mon Jun 1 16:02:38 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA28930; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 16:02:36 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806012302.QAA28930@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: NFS discovery To: toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 23:02:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mi@video-collage.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806011829.NAA20244@home.dragondata.com> from "Kevin Day" at Jun 1, 98 01:29:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > NFS hung ups are a strange topic, in my experience. People agree > > that they are "bad", but one is not supposed to complain about > > them... > > Don't read my post as a complaint, rather as a 'hey, why does it do this?" > :) The freeze on server crash comes from an outstanding RPC call that was made, the call was ack'ed, but the response had not yet been sent. Because the call was ack'ed, the client doesn't retry the call. This is arguably a bug in the client code. The easiest workaround is to use UDP NFS instead of TCP. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message