On 4 Apr 1999, Murata Shuuichirou wrote: > In message <199904040913.raa26...@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>, > `shock...@prth.pgs.com' wrote: > > On the offchance that mty problems were chipset related, I swapped the > > RealTek with the de0 card in my other machine, a 233MHz k6. It being a > > socket 7 mboard presumably has a later PCI bios. Still the same symptoms - > > hangs on NFS access. These can be interrupted and other network traffic > > continues fine. To reproduce, take your RealTek equipped machine and place a > > copy of /usr/src on it. Export /usr/src so that it can be NFS mounted by > > other machines. From the other machines, do an ls -CFR of /usr/src. It will > > hang partway through. > > I have probably same problem here. NFS hangs and other > network traffic is still alive. Though, my situation > differs a little from yours. I have two RealTek NFS clients > and NFS server has another chip. Both of RealTek NFS clients > (Celeron 300MHz and MediaGX 266MHz) have the problem. > > To reproduce: > Install bytebench on the RealTek machine. > Set env var TMPDIR to somewhere NFS mounted dir. > Do "bytebench fstime".
I have a solution and a workaround for you guys, solution: ditch the cheap PoS cards and get an fxp or xl card workaround: switch from UDP to TCP mounts or TCP to UDP, make sure the packet size used for the NFS mounts is a small value, try NFSv3, or if you are already using NFSv3, try NFSv2. Yes, the workaround seems like "just try several permutations", but I experianced the same problems, tweaking my NFS mounts, especially to use smaller read/write values made the problem go away. I think that switching to TCP may help. When i got some decent network hardware, my problems went away. -Alfred > > -- > Murata Shuuichirou > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Alfred Perlstein - Admin, coder, and admirer of all things BSD. -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 4.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
