From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 28 8:35:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [200.52.207.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE4237B43C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:34:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ales (ales.corp.megared.net.mx [200.52.193.2]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id e8SFX9O29235; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:33:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megacable.com.mx) Message-ID: <045901c02961$840ec1a0$02c134c8@megared.net.mx> From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Andrew BOGECHO" , References: <20000927093713.D13245@cs.mcgill.ca> <39D303C5.1E440669@inpharmatica.co.uk> <20000928095901.E5204@cs.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: nfs errors Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:33:56 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Andrew, Take a look at the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/nfs.html in the following section: 16.4.4. Problems integrating with other systems It may help you understanding your problem. Greetings... Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew BOGECHO" To: Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 8:59 AM Subject: Re: nfs errors > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message