From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 24 13:34:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22419 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@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 NAA22349 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:34:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06693; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:34:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd006584; Wed Jun 24 13:34:04 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13686; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:33:59 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806242033.NAA13686@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: NFS send error 55 for fs: To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 20:33:59 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mrcpu@internetcds.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806241138.TAA12056@spinner.netplex.com.au> from "Peter Wemm" at Jun 24, 98 07:38:58 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > OK, but which buffer is it out of? MAXUSERS is set to 128. Is this > > an NMBCLUSTERS fix thingie? MSIZE? NBUF? > > It's running into IFQ_MAXLEN, this is the same problem that causes ping to > fail with 'no buffer space'. The original network code used to drop the > packets silently when the outbound queue limit was reached. DG changed it > so that it reported back an ENOBUFS error. What's actually happening is > that the combination of NFS and possibly other traffic has filled the > outbound queue. > > The fix is probably to ignore the error within NFS, since it'll have > to retransmit and Just Get Over It. I think that perhaps there's an issue with NFS failing when it should ignore the error, given what you have said. Does the system fail, or are you just concerned over the errors on the console? 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-hackers" in the body of the message