In the last episode (Mar 25), Terry Lambert said: > Ian Dowse wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by a "lost" mount. Do all further > > accesses to the filesystem hang? > > > > It is normal enough to get the above 'not responding' errors > > occasionally on a busy fileserver, but only if they are almost > > immediately followed by 'is alive again' messages. > > Particularly when using UDP with a "rsize" or "wsize" larger than the > MTU, which Linux people do all the time. > > As you are using UDP... > > "If you hear hoofbeats, look for horses first, not zebras".
UDP works just fine on a switched network. On my NFS servers I use an 8k rsize/wsize and UDP mounts on everything and have relatively few dropped fragments. Server 1 (NFS homedir server): 21:22 up 23 days, 8:02, 36 users, load averages: 0.00 0.01 0.00 ip: 1783574152 total packets received 520544166 fragments received 82873817 packets reassembled ok 15246 fragments dropped after timeout Server 2: 21:31 up 223 days, 13:17, 35 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.12, 0.09 ip: 2089844841 total packets received (rolled over 4 times) 3965873984 fragments received 668066863 packets reassembled ok 25596 fragments dropped after timeout (hmm whatever happened to the 64-bit network counters idea) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"