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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:40:57 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        mrcpu@internetcds.com (Jaye Mathisen), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NFS send error 55 for fs: 
Message-ID:  <199806241140.TAA12106@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:15:06 GMT." <199806240915.CAA23568@usr08.primenet.com> 

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> > OK, but which buffer is it out of?  MAXUSERS is set to 128.  Is this
> > an NMBCLUSTERS fix thingie?  MSIZE?  NBUF?  
> 
> NMBCLUSTERS.

No, won't make any difference.  You'd be getting a panic or a crash if 
that was the problem.

> I'm betting this is a server death, resulting in all local buffers
> being used up.
> 
> If you have a ppp connection, you can do the same thing by turning off
> your modem, and starting a "ping" to bring the link up.  Pretty quick
> way to screw your system.

If it's a pppd link it's quite easy to provoke this, although why you'd 
want to run NFS over modem links is beyond me. :-)

> You should look at the underlying problem, which is probably hardware.
> 
> Are you using a 10/100 card, supposedly in 100 mode, supposedly it's
> being autodetected?  A number of cards have problems with this; Doug
> Ambrisko would be able to fill you in...
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>   Netplex Consulting



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