Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 01:32:39 -0400 From: Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Subject: Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X? Message-ID: <20060702053239.GA10035@it.ca> In-Reply-To: <cone.1151817029.313517.42680.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <cone.1151804062.239894.42680.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <A50CEECD-BA65-40B0-AE53-BDF6319EF241@shire.net> <cone.1151816486.523630.42680.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <AFAF7B5D-B705-4451-AECD-6D8ECCBB61C9@shire.net> <cone.1151817029.313517.42680.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:10:29AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: > > >I don't remember general complaints about nfs in the 6.x series here > >in the list. > > Checkt he stable list. :-) > Locking issues on server during heavy load. > Background fsck + NFSD locking issues > Clients freeze if server goes away.. soft mount option doesn help. I've had ongoing problems with a 5.4 box that does boatloads of file IO both on NFS and local disk (doing weird things with 10 to 12 GB of Apache logs daily). NFS seems to go away for a few seconds (the filer is unpingable), then return. Despite the 5.x branch's known problems, I had attributed this to the fact that I'm using <cough> bge NICs. I moved most of this log processing to a 6.1-RELEASE box last week (on identical hardware), and I've seen none of the timeouts. Hardly scientific, but my $0.02 nonetheless I'm using HP DL380-G4 servers (onboard bge, ciss RAID), with a BlueArc Titan for NFS. Of course, I'm not running nfsd on the FreeBSD boxes, they're just clients. -- Paul Chvostek <paul@it.ca> it.canada http://www.it.ca/
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