From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 28 6:59:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3858E37B423 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 06:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from andrewb@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA10987 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:59:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:59:01 -0400 From: Andrew BOGECHO To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs errors Message-ID: <20000928095901.E5204@cs.mcgill.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew BOGECHO , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000927093713.D13245@cs.mcgill.ca> <39D303C5.1E440669@inpharmatica.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39D303C5.1E440669@inpharmatica.co.uk>; from m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:39:33AM +0100 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 09:57:30 EDT 2000 Hi Matthew, Thank you for the input. I will try using NFSv2. However, knowing our cabling, it would not surprise me if that was it. Andrew. On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:39:33AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Hi, > > We also have a mixture of FreeBSD and Solaris servers, and I had a very bad > patch of this error occuring between our mailserver (FBSD) and our NFS machine > (Solaris). It turns out that we had a marginal ethernet cable, and replacing > it has reduced the occurrence of such errors to once every few days (which is > managable). The annoying thing was that the FreeBSD machine seemed to suffer > a lot more from the fault than other machines around our network. > > I also found that NFSv2 rather than v3 seemed to work a bit better given the > dodgy connection. > > Andrew BOGECHO wrote: > > We have recently been moving more and more to FreeBSD. The enjoyment > > of such a stable platform allows us to see that we are making the > > right decision. > > > > We do have one error message that shows up all the time. It does not > > affect us or our users, but it does make me curious. I have searched > > everywhere, and have only found one reference to this error, but no > > repies. > > > > The error message is as follows: > > > > /kernel: nfs send error 32 for server blah:/partitiona > > > > The above error message occurs sometimes several times a minute, a > > few times an hour, there is no preset frequency, but it is often. > > It also affects all nfs mounted paritions. > > Matthew > > -- > Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate non iam adesse. > > Dr. Matthew Seaman, Inpharmatica Ltd, 60 Charlotte St, London, W1T 2NU > Tel: +44 20 7631 4644 x229 Fax: +44 20 7631 4844 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message