Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:01:33 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again Message-ID: <20041005110133.48bbbc2f.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20041005113329.D40597@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20041004001747.J10913@ganymede.hub.org> <20041005052249.GC917@alex.lan> <20041005085102.376a7e95.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20041005113329.D40597@ganymede.hub.org>
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"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote: > > > What kind of network topology is between the two machines? Do you > > notice a high load on the hub/switch/routers during these activities? > > You may be able to improve the intervening network topology to improve > > the problem as well. > > My bad ... I thought i had mentioned it in the original ... the nfs mount > is from local machine to local machine, to do what nullfs normally would > provide were I to risk it ... namely, to get at the 'bottom layer' of a > unionfs based storage system ... Well ... that's just weird. I guess the same problem could apply: if the loopback slows down when the kernel is loaded, it could cause the same effect. Have you tried forcing TCP mounts? IIRC, that's what solved the problem for me. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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