From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 04:41:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA13224 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 04:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA13160 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 04:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id TAA12106; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:40:58 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199806241140.TAA12106@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Terry Lambert cc: mrcpu@internetcds.com (Jaye Mathisen), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS send error 55 for fs: In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:15:06 GMT." <199806240915.CAA23568@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:40:57 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message