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Date:      Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:49:31 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nfs server not responding / is alive again
Message-ID:  <20041005124922.B40597@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041005110133.48bbbc2f.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
References:  <20041004001747.J10913@ganymede.hub.org> <20041005052249.GC917@alex.lan> <20041005113329.D40597@ganymede.hub.org> <20041005110133.48bbbc2f.wmoran@potentialtech.com>

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On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Bill Moran wrote:

> "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.

Haven't tried yet, but will ... thanks :)


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